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US President Donald Trump in search of ‘Critical Minerals’ and Military Basis-Field Marshal Asim Munir’s offers to President Trump to build a deep-water port at Pasni and a railway link into Pakistan’s mineral heartlands.
The idea is to entice American investors with access to so-called ‘Critical Minerals’ while quietly presenting Pasni Port as a counterweight to China’s Gwadar Port and India’s Chabahar Portin Iran attempting to “kill two birds with one stone?” Or was it President Trump’s idea whispered during the quite lunch now being parroted by his newly found friend Field Marshal Asim Munir in return for the White House lunch with President Trump!
Ties between Pakistan and the US have seen a drastic change in the last few months in the aftermath of the conflict with India following the Pahalgam terror attack. From signing cryptocurrency deals to crediting Trump for ending the conflict with India and proposing his name for the Nobel Peace Prize, Pakistani diplomacy has been in overdrive to curry favour with the White House.
In recent weeks, Islamabad has come out in support of Trump’s peace plan for Gaza. Last month, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, along with Field Marshal Asim Munir, met with Trump at the White House, where the Pakistani leadership handed over mineral samples to the US administration in a briefcase!
In reality, it is a desperate gamble by the Pak Military that risks angering China which also exposes Islamabad’s habitual duplicity in playing both sides of global rivalries. Field Marshal Asim Munir is forgetting Henry Kissinger’s warning –
“It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.”
Munir’s Or US Officials Proposal
Munir’s proposal, shared by his advisers with US officials ahead of his September White House meeting with Donald Trump aims to convince Washington that Pasni Port could be a mineral Gateway.
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