In February 2025, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi was warmly welcomed to the White House. He was the second foreign leader to be hosted by newly inaugurated President Donald Trump. Meanwhile, Pakistan’s prime minister hadn’t even gotten a phone call. The Pakistan-U.S. relationship had been on ice since Trump’s first term, when he famously said Pakistan had given the U.S. “nothing but lies and deceit.”
Then, in 2025, the impossible happened. India, Washington’s “indispensable” partner, was hit with a brutal 50 percent tariff and snubbed for a presidential visit. And Pakistan is being celebrated at the White House as America’s new favorite ally. It all started when New Delhi humiliated Trump by publicly rejecting his claim to have mediated an end to the May 2025 conflict with Pakistan. Since then, the India-U.S. relationship has entered a deep freeze. There’s been no Quad summit, no Trump visit to India, and no trade deal to give India respite from astronomical tariffs. High-level dialogue has totally collapsed.
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