Only time will tell how relations with Pakistan will turn out with the arrival of US President Joe Biden
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The Biden administration came to power in the United States at a time when the PTI government in Pakistan is nearing the end of its third parliamentary year after a two-and-a-half year journey. In the fourth and fifth years of the government, the grip on the bureaucracy weakens, and in the fifth parliamentary year, the government prepares for the next general election, so that this year passes in the blink of an eye. Thus, it is practically a year for bilateral diplomatic relations between the Imran government and the Joe Biden administration. The Biden administration’s focus will be on the future political map of Pakistan. If the Imran government is analyzed and it is decided that the government will complete its five-year term and there is no real threat of any political challenge and resistance, including the PDM, then the biggest question will be that will the government be able to achieve its set political goals? How much grip will he have on foreign affairs? The answer is that the last two and a half years of the government will be the real picture of the next two and a half years, but past performance shows that this picture is not bright but blurred.
The country’s growth rate has turned negative, how much improvement can be made after two and a half years with the same economic realities? How many highways will be built in the veins of the country’s economy and how many new factories will be able to add blood to end the energy crisis, and how much revolution this government will be able to bring to the agricultural economy. Promises to provide jobs and build homes for the unemployed are still a mirage. The poor have fallen so far below the poverty line that they are no longer visible. The slogan of PTI was that it will create a corruption free Pakistan, people will come here from abroad to get jobs, it will bring back billions of dollars of black money lying abroad and make the country rich, and it will hit foreign debt on the face. The half-term of the government has come to an end. Looking at its performance so far, it can be said that the government will not be able to fulfill its goals and promises, and when five years have passed, its top leaders and ministerswill not be able to defend their government.
The first two-and-a-half years of the Imran government were spent in a vigorous campaign against corruption, with prominent politicians and bureaucrats imprisoned. The whole campaign did not work, nor did it end corruption at the national level. The campaign was intense, but it had no effect on society. The tyranny and corruption of police stations, courts and patwaris is still going on. Occupying mafia is rampant in every major city of the country including Lahore and Islamabad; it has full patronage of police. The construction sector lobby has reaped the financial benefits of billions of rupees in tax breaks for itself in the name of consumers. A government that has no economic vision, which is unpopular with these facts, and which is standing trial as an accused in a foreign funding case against itself in the Election Commission with serious consequences, is rapidly losing public confidence. What will the Biden administration talk with?
US President-elect Joe Biden is due to take office this week, after which he will outline his priorities. We look forward to their priorities for peace in the Middle East, Kashmir, South Asia and the world in general. The history of Pak-US relations has been that they are going on like an unmarried marriage; this bond has been going on from generation to generation. The United States also has a history of assurances for us; its green card has its own distinct taste for which a large number of our retired bureaucrats, military officers and diplomats have settled there, the US dollar has tied our economy. One of the reasons for inflation in the country is that the world is now helpless in the face of Corona. Public health will also be the top priority of the newly elected US President, but before the swearing-in, many questions have been raised about the health of the political system there. It is the fate of the Americans that will weaken them in the world. This disturbance is now gripping the United States, its virus will continue to attack by changing its forms, and such political conflicts in American society will never end in the future.
How much will President-elect Joe Biden save American political civilization? This question will surely come up four years later. At the moment the health system and the country’s economy are in a state of disrepair, the United States is completely divided into blacks and whites. Pakistani society has also been divided on the issue of relations with the United States, but the decision-making forces have been dominating the thinking of the society, so Pak-US relations are going on with ups and downs. The most important and fundamental question is that the way things are going in the United States after the results of the presidential election, there is no opportunity to raise any question on foreign affairs in our country’s parliament. The National Assembly has not met for four months. The issue has not been discussed in the recent session of the Senate, which shows that the situation has been analyzed in our Foreign Ministry. When the situation worsens in response to the results of the presidential election, there is a possibility of civil war. In that case, what does the government of Pakistan think about the protection of Pakistanis living there and what arrangements will be made? These questions must be answered in Parliament. One aspect of the Pak-US relationship analysis is that we have had relations with the world’s superpowers for 73 years, so why are we below the economic poverty line? Unemployment and debt burden is increasing, who is responsible for it? The sign of mutual trust is that there has been no dignified equality in bilateral relations, but we have been running after a mirage for seven decades.
Biden has been sworn in as the 46th President of the United States, and the world is once again waiting for a change in US foreign policy, which was lost under Trump. There is now resistance to relations with China, globalization and the growing influence of these global elite. The United States must now adjust its foreign policy. Although Trump has lost the election, his ideas will live on. In addition to fighting a rebellious Trump, Biden will have to work to improve the coronary economy and meet domestic needs. The country needs to be stabilized by protecting American jobs and businesses. Geopolitics of military, economic, technical and ideological competition with China is also unlikely.
Biden will try to get the United States to advance in technology instead of belittling China. Biden has said his government will invest 400 400 billion in energy. Joe Biden has also promised 10 million well-paid average-level union jobs. US relations with Western Europe and Japan are important in foreign policy. The Biden administration, which will maintain relations with Israel, India and the Gulf states, may have a different attitude towards Russia, as it is also an internal US issue. Because Biden will not have much support in Congress, local politics will be an obstacle to his other agendas. That is why Iran may not be in a hurry to rejoin the nuclear deal. For US relations with Pakistan, which will be different from the Biden administration to the Obama administration, Pak-US relations will not depend on the past, because a lot has changed now.
The war in Afghanistan is now becoming history, the Afghan government and the Taliban will remain important to the United States. If no solution is found to the conflict, the Pak-Afghan border areas will be affected. This is a threat that will be a major test for Pakistan. The United States would not want Pakistan as well as China to be targeted in the Indo-Pacific strategy. In that case, Pakistan will be closer to China, but if Pakistan wants to have friendly relations with the United States, it will have to respond positively to the common interests of both countries. As in the past, there is still no possibility of getting aid again, because that aid was given because of the war on terror and war, and now this situation does not exist. But it is possible that relations between the two countries will return to normal in which Pakistan is not an ally of the United States but is not separate from it. Pakistan’s corrupt elite has caused the country’s economic ruin and decline, but this class is the nose hair of the Americans, so the journey of destruction of national institutions at the hands of the pro-American elite will continue.
