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Published on: 08/01/2025 | 00:00:00
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Analysts predict a tough 2025 for Pakistan as it manages ties with its neighbours, allies and adversaries across the world, as well as with the United States. Most of Pakistan’s foreign policy and security challenges arise due to its neighbourhood, mainly Afghanistan to its west and archrival India on the east. China Pakistani authorities frequently tout their friendship with China. But 2024 revealed cracks in that relationship. Attacks on Chinese citizens culminated, forcing a rare public rebuke. China’s frustrations with Pakistan stem from its investments in the CPEC yielding few returns. The United States Pakistan’s relations with the US go back to its independence from British rule and emergence as a new nation in 1947. But Islamabad-Washington ties mostly pivoted on how Pakistan aided US policies in the region. Pakistan remains a low priority for the US, Bokhari says. India India remains the biggest foreign policy conundrum for Pakistan. Tensions over Kashmir further intensified after New Delhi stripped Kashmir of its autonomy in 2019. India has shown no willingness for flexibility after the constitutional amendment. Basit thinks Islamabad must find ways to engage with New Delhi. India might be in the US crosshairs this year and find itself under pressure. Umer Karim warns that a deterioration in Pakistan-Iran ties could worsen border security. The Baloch rebels have been fighting for decades for a separate homeland.
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