Rabia Akhtar: The Blind Eye, U.S. Non-Proliferation Policy Towards Pakistan From Ford to Clinton

Abstract

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Pakistan-China Strategic Cooperation (1972- 2015)

“…With the breakup of alliances in the 1970s the aid flow to Pakistan was also reduced as US only granted US$ 2.9 million military aid during 1972-79, and US$ 2.55 billion economic aid during the same period, which showed that Washington was interested in economic development of the state rather than a military collaboration. Washington was well aware of the Sino-Pakistan nuclear cooperation in 1983 (Bagchi, 2017), despite it, US turned blind eye on nuclear programme of Pakistan (Akhtar, 2018). US continued to provide aid that jumped to US$ 5 billion in the 1979-90 period in which Islamabad was engaged in a proxy war against the Soviet forces occupation of Afghanistan.…”