cover image: January 2024      Policy Brief No. 4 - MANAGING US RELATIONS WITH PAKISTAN IN UNCERTAIN TIMES: OBSTACLES AND OPPORTUNITIES

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January 2024 Policy Brief No. 4 - MANAGING US RELATIONS WITH PAKISTAN IN UNCERTAIN TIMES: OBSTACLES AND OPPORTUNITIES

19 Jan 2024

need not rehyphenate its approach to of parliament to further delay the polls,1 and a sudden deterioration of Pakistan and India, but American policymakers must the security situation with neighboring Iran on the heels of retaliatory realize that their strategic alliance with India has a cross-border strikes against militant outfits,2 it remains uncertain when direct impact on Pakistan and should. [...] needs to avert a maximalist view of Chinese how long the incoming government will manage to stay in power, and the assistance and instead aim to work alongside China to amount of legitimacy it will be able to muster. [...] Conversely, a security- tensions, which may serve the short-term goal of dominated relationship with Pakistan would not bode pushing back against Iran but will increase the risk of well for contending with the growing authoritarianism and destabilizing Pakistan and exacerbating the sectarian polarization within the country. [...] Yet Pakistan over the IMF to exert indirect pressure upon Pakistan needs to adopt better mining governance practices to to prevent human rights abuses and improve its not only maximize the economic benefits of supplying governance record to continue qualifying for loan critical energy minerals but also to avert harm to packages after the current standby phase. [...] Pakistan, like it has done in the past, for the next round Greater collaboration with Pakistan in this regard of elections to not only monitor the electoral process would additionally offer the U.
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