After years of disengagement, ties between the U.S. and Pakistan are warming, but the future of relations is still unknown.
- Husain Haqqani, director of south and Central Asian at the Hudson Institute, explains that while the U.S. no longer depends on Pakistan for logistical support, Pakistan is still of strategic importance to the U.S. due to its location, its nuclear weapons capability and its army.
- Pakistan’s reluctance to end all support for Islamic radicalism has been a factor in the relationship between the U.S. and Pakistan, he said.
- The relationships between the U.S. and India and China and Pakistan further complicate the engagement between the U.S. and Pakistan, according to Haqqani.
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