President Donald Trump made an attention grabbing statement on 22 August while addressing the American nation in Washington. “Pakistan has also sheltered the same organizations that try every single day to kill our people. We have been paying Pakistan billions and billions of dollars, at the same time they are housing the very terrorists that we are fighting. But that will have to change, and that will change immediately. No partnership can survive a country’s harbouring of militants and terrorists who target U.S. service members and officials. It is time for Pakistan to demonstrate its commitment to civilization, order, and to peace”, he said.
American bashing of Pakistan never ends. They are partners in the war on terror, they are adversaries as well, and this continues over the past sixteen years. Historically, their path remained divergent in the 1950s, when Pakistan was warming up ties with the People’s Republic of China – an isolated Communist joint in American eyes. Pakistan never clogged until it recognised the PRC in 1971, which made US National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger’s visit to Peking in July of the same year.
