Pakistan-United States Strategic Relations: Understanding the Formation of Alliance with US in Pakistan Perspective after 9/11
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.70670/sra.v4i1.2585Keywords:
Pakistan, USA, Alliance, Foreign PolicyAbstract
The incident of 9/11 has changed the dynamics of the global world. Once US demands started when President Bush and his cabinet reached to the conclusion that Al-Qaeda has been involved in brutal attacks on World Trade Centre and Pentagon located at New York and Virginia respectively. After the conclusion they announced their strategic level strategy in combating terrorism publicly. In this particular strategy they have announced that all countries across the globe that are harboring and sponsoring terrorism are enemies to USA. For this purpose, Afghanistan and Iraq became the major target for Bush Administration. Pakistan became feasible option for USA to reach out to Afghanistan in this regard because Pakistan advantages in many aspects over other regional countries. US made alliance with Pakistan purely based on securing her national interests, there were many factors involved which pushed them to make alliance with Pakistan. Similarly, Pakistan has its desired goals and objectives through which she has achieved it through US. She has not alternative options in hands, she cannot join Chinese nor Russian bloc because of US hegemony. The Bush administration has clearly mentioned that either you are with us or the terrorists so Pakistan immediately joined US sponsored war against terrorism. The economic condition of the country was very weak the democratic government of Nawaz Sharif was overthrown and replaced by dictatorial reign of President Musharraf. Pakistan wanted to boost the economic conditions and military assistance through USA to balance out the power in the region. On the other hand Pakistan wanted peaceful resolution of Kashmir for this purpose she needed powerful country to support her stance at both regional and global levels. The other important aspect of Pakistan’s going in alliance was that President Musharraf wanted to legitimatize his government through the help of USA.
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