Choosing The Track: Pak-Us Strategic Partnership 1947-77

Abstract: Citation of the paper: (Jarh) Akhtar, M, N., Faiz, M, A., (2024). Choosing the Track: PAK-US Strategic Partnership 1947-77. In Journal of Academic Research for Humanities, 4(3), 72–84. QR Code for the Paper: The Cold War, an ideological conflict between two superpowers of the World—i.e. US and USSR, was going on when Pakistan emerged on the globe in 1947. Pakistan's creation took place on the religiously ideological rationale of the Two Nations Theory in South Asia. Besides asserting its national recognition among the international community, it had to confront myriad challenges concerning its security and survival. Despite striving to maintain its nonaligned posture towards the Cold War, soon it had to fall into the Western bloc led by the USA against the Soviet bloc led by the USSR. This paper unravels the political, strategic, and economic dynamics of the international environment and the constraints of the fragile newly born state of Pakistan while striving for its survival and interplaying with the international arena between 1947 and 1977. This study recounts the interests of regional and international players in South Asia, Pakistan’s internal political milieu and external threats making its survival hard, and its strategic manoeuvring to cope with the confronted challenges. It evaluates the constraints leading Pakistan to be a strategic partner of the USA and goes into the cast and benefit analysis of this partnership. This study argues that it was the complex arrangement of international and regional politics, internal economic and political instability of Pakistan that compelled it to join and stay in western bloc making it hard to quit from it despite losing its trust form its strategic partnership with US. The methodology deployed in this discourse is descriptive, normative, and qualitative arranging the data and its analysis chronologically. Keywords: USA, Pakistan, Diplomacy, Economy, Strategic.