Kiyya Baloch
In December 2025, Acting US Ambassador to Pakistan Natalie Baker announced in a video message that Washington had approved $1.25 billion in financing from the US Export–Import Bank for Pakistan’s Reko Diq copper-gold project in the country’s restive southwestern province of Balochistan. Pakistani and US officials welcomed the decision, hoping the financing would unlock up to $2 billion in US mining equipment exports and create an estimated 6,000 jobs in the US and 7,500 in Balochistan, Pakistan’s poorest province, but rich in minerals.
The announcement was a rare moment of optimism in US–Pakistan relations after years of mistrust, particularly following President Donald Trump’s accusations during his first term that Pakistan had given Washington “nothing but lies and deceit.” Relations between Islamabad and Washington have been strained since a US military raid on an al-Qa’ida compound in Abbottabad, 30 miles northeast of Islamabad, killed Osama bin Laden, America’s most wanted terrorist.
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