“You Can’t Buy Respect”: Pakistan Faces Domestic Backlash After India–US Trade Deal

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, US President Donald Trump, and Pakistan Army Chief General Asim Munir symbolising Islamabad’s high-level outreach to Washington amid domestic backlash over a less favourable US trade tariff outcome compared to India. (PC: NDTV)

India’s newly concluded trade agreement with the United States has sparked a wave of criticism and introspection within Pakistan, where political leaders, analysts, and commentators say months of high-profile outreach to Washington have delivered little tangible benefit. Despite Islamabad’s overt diplomatic gestures toward U.S. President Donald Trump, Pakistan has emerged with a higher tariff burden […]