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Vol. 4 No. 3 (2024)
The International "Journal of Academic Research for Humanities"

Research Articles

Choosing the Track: PAK-US Strategic Partnership 1947-77

Published 30-09-2024

  • Dr. Muhammad Aslam Faiz
    • ,
  • Dr. Muhammad Naveed Akhtar
    • ,
  • Bushra Akbar

Dr. Muhammad Aslam Faiz
Department of History and Political Science, Ghazi University, Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan

Dr. Muhammad Naveed Akhtar
Department of History and Political Science, Ghazi University, Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan.

Bushra Akbar
MPhil Scholar, Ghazi University, Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan

Abstract

The Cold War, an ideological conflict between two superpowers of the World—i.e. US and USSR, was going on when Pakistan emerged on the globe in 1947. Pakistan's creation took place on the religiously ideological rationale of the Two Nations Theory in South Asia. Besides asserting its national recognition among the international community, it had to confront myriad challenges concerning its security. Despite striving to maintain its nonaligned posture towards the Cold War, soon it had to fall into the Western bloc led by the USA against the Soviet bloc led by the USSR. This paper unravels the political, strategic, and economic dynamics of the international environment and the constraints of the newly-born state of Pakistan while striving for its survival and interplaying with the international arena between 1947 and 1977. This study recounts the interests of regional and international players in South Asia, Pakistan’s internal political milieu and external threats making its survival hard, and its strategic manoeuvring to cope with the confronted challenges. It evaluates the constraints leading Pakistan to be a strategic partner of the USA and goes into a cast and benefit analysis of this partnership. This study argues that the complex arrangement of international and regional politics and Pakistan's internal economic and political instability compelled it to join and stay in the Western bloc, making it hard to quit it despite losing its trust in its strategic partnership with the US. The methodology deployed in this discourse is descriptive, normative, and qualitative and analysed chronologically.

Keywords

USA, Pakistan, Diplomacy, Economy, Strategic

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