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Toxic Allies: The Complicated Story of the Pakistan-US Relationship

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Toxic Allies: The Complicated Story of the Pakistan-US Relationship

Touqir Hussain, Husain Haqqani, and Michael Kugelman discuss the different phases of Pakistan’s relationship with the U.S., including the current revival.

Toxic Allies: The Complicated Story of the Pakistan-US Relationship

In this episode of Beyond the Indus, host Tushar Shetty is joined by Ambassador Touqir Hussain, Ambassador Husain Haqqani, and South Asia expert Michael Kugelman for our mega-episode on Pakistan’s foreign policy and its relationship with the United States.

We break down Pakistan’s historical and contemporary foreign policy and diplomacy, the different phases of its relationship with the U.S., and the current revival of the Pakistan-U.S. relationship in the face of the diplomatic spat between India and the U.S.

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