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    Pakistan can maintain a balance between its relationships with Russia and its longtime ally the US by pursuing cooperation with both countries on economic and trade issues while limiting defense cooperation to only Russia. Pakistan and Russia have a long political relationship dating back to 1948, though Pakistan's support for anti-Soviet forces in Afghanistan strained ties. Both countries have improved economic and diplomatic relations since the 1990s. Pakistan aims to strengthen trade with Russia in key areas like energy while continuing its strategic partnership with the US. Achieving a perfect balance will be difficult but pursuing cooperation on non-defense issues with both powers can help Pakistan balance these important relationships.

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    Pakistan can maintain a balance between its relationships with Russia and its longtime ally the US by pursuing cooperation with both countries on economic and trade issues while limiting defense cooperation to only Russia. Pakistan and Russia have a long political relationship dating back to 1948, though Pakistan's support for anti-Soviet forces in Afghanistan strained ties. Both countries have improved economic and diplomatic relations since the 1990s. Pakistan aims to strengthen trade with Russia in key areas like energy while continuing its strategic partnership with the US. Achieving a perfect balance will be difficult but pursuing cooperation on non-defense issues with both powers can help Pakistan balance these important relationships.

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    Pakistan can maintain a balance between its relationships with Russia and its longtime ally the US by pursuing cooperation with both countries on economic and trade issues while limiting defense cooperation to only Russia. Pakistan and Russia have a long political relationship dating back to 1948, though Pakistan's support for anti-Soviet forces in Afghanistan strained ties. Both countries have improved economic and diplomatic relations since the 1990s. Pakistan aims to strengthen trade with Russia in key areas like energy while continuing its strategic partnership with the US. Achieving a perfect balance will be difficult but pursuing cooperation on non-defense issues with both powers can help Pakistan balance these important relationships.

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    Pakistan can maintain a balance between its relationships with Russia and its longtime ally the US by pursuing cooperation with both countries on economic and trade issues while limiting defense cooperation to only Russia. Pakistan and Russia have a long political relationship dating back to 1948, though Pakistan's support for anti-Soviet forces in Afghanistan strained ties. Both countries have improved economic and diplomatic relations since the 1990s. Pakistan aims to strengthen trade with Russia in key areas like energy while continuing its strategic partnership with the US. Achieving a perfect balance will be difficult but pursuing cooperation on non-defense issues with both powers can help Pakistan balance these important relationships.

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    Q.

    How can Pakistan maintain a balance between its growing relationships with Russian federation
    (i.e. present Russia) and the ties with its longtime ally USA?

    The political relationship between Pakistan and the Russian Federation trace back to 1948 shortly after
    the establishment of the sovereign state of Pakistan. Since then, both countries have had what the
    current Russian ambassador to Pakistan, Sergey Peskov . Pakistan’s support of the muhajideen, or anti-
    Soviet Afghan freedom fighters during the 1979 Soviet War in Afghanistan, has strained Russian and
    Pakistani political relations. In addition, Russia’s friendly ties with Pakistan’s rival, India – a strong
    relationship that dates back to Soviet times– have faded away political tensions between Russia and
    Pakistan. Nonetheless, there have been significant economic, political, and diplomatic ties between the
    two countries, since the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan in 1989, and the collapse of the
    Soviet Union in 1991. In 2003, Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf visited the Kremlin on an
    invitation from the Russian President, Vladimir Putin followed by Russian Prime Minister, Mikhail
    Fradkov’s visit to Pakistan in 2007. These visits have paved the way for the two countries to improve
    bilateral relations through signing agreements for enhancing economic cooperation, trade, and
    educational and scientific exchanges. Pakistan maintains a relatively strong relationship in terms of
    economic and trade cooperation. Defense is the main field of Pak-Russia ties. The two sides have agreed
    to multiply the cooperation. Russia is willing to take the relationship to a new level and forget the bitter
    past dating back to the cold war era. Apart from defense, Pakistan wants to also improve trade in other
    areas with Russia. Russia is an energy-surplus country. Pakistan has shortages in energy, so the country
    hopes to talk on those areas as well. Pakistan is already pursuing the field. It is proved that there is no
    permanent friends in the international relations, only interest are primary and supreme. The nature of
    Pakistan-US relations the foreign policy orientation has always floating on the outer surface. With the
    world shifting from unipolarity to multipolarity Pakistan needs to modify its foreign policy orientation
    according to the changing international and regional circumstances. Therefore, being a very strategically
    important country in region Pakistan has to forget the cold war and look towards a different relationship
    with the regional power based on cooperation and mutual trust while maintain stability in its bilateral
    relations with the US. Pakistan geopolitical location and nearness with important lands and sea routes
    makes it all more relevant. It is going to be challenging for Pakistan to balance the relation with US
    because of the fact that Washington now regards Islamabad as an “accomplice”. So there is no way that
    US will look past this game-changing geostrategic fact to make a positive relation with Pakistan to
    impede the CPEC. Even remembering in mind that Pakistan Russian relationship is still in its early stages,
    it cannot compare to the Islamabad’s relation with Washington. Russia and Pakistan faced off in 1980’s
    while the US and Pakistan cooperated to an extent in 2000’s. The best course of action for Pakistan is to
    expand its relation with Russia, china and Iran. It is essentially the multipolar bloc of Russia-China-
    Pakistan vs the unipolar one of the US-India-Afghanistan. Achieving a perfect balance between the two
    powers US and Russia seems to be farfetched dream. Pakistan should try to adopt a carefully balanced
    foreign policy in approaching Russia and US. Pakistan should learn from its past experiences. It will also
    help grow Pakistan’s economic development. Greater connectivity ushers in deeper cooperation, which
    Pakistan has the potential to achieve if it makes the right choices.

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