Monitoring Desk: “Pakistan may not be relevant for the Trump administration, which has more pressing concerns on its agenda. In the absence of significant geostrategic motivations, Trump is likely to engage with Pakistan on a transactional basis, particularly in the realm of counterterrorism. There is a possibility that Trump may discontinue the current assistance under the US “Green Alliance” framework, which focuses on water management, clean energy, and climate-smart agriculture, especially given his stance on climate change, which he has dismissed as “mythical,” “nonexistent,” and “expensive hoax.”
According to an article titled “Trump’s new hawk” written by senior journalist and Editor Naveed Hussain in Express Tribune, Trump’s choice of neocon Marco Rubio for Secretary of State would surely bring Rubio’s Iran Obsession, Israelophilia, Sinophobia, and Russophobia in US Foreign Policy.
The original article can be read by clicking this link at Express Tribune’s Sunday Magazine.