Iran-Pakistan Relations: Challenges, Constraints and.
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As time passed, Pakistan-Iran relations progressed well in the 1950s and 1960s, but watershed changes; first the success of the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979, followed by the Soviet Occupation of Afghanis tan; put a strain on the bilateral r elationship. Broadly, Pakistan-Iran relations can be categorised into two eras, i.e., pre and post 1979. In the pre-1979 phase, both the States.
On the other hand, Pakistan's relations with Iran have been strained at times due to sectarian tensions. Iran and Saudi Arabia used Pakistan as a battleground for their proxy sectarian war and by the 1990s, Pakistan's support for the Sunni Taliban organisation in Afghanistan became a problem for Shia Iran which opposed a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. (33).
Iran and Iraq fought each other for quite some time, but Pakistan never sided with either of them. Likewise, Pakistan established close relations with the US since the time of Liaquat Ali Khan.
Why Pakistan cannot get into a Pak Rupee- Iranian Rial exchange mechanism like India has done. Make payments in Pak Rupees which are then used for settlement of Pakistani exports to Iran.
The politics of aid in US-Pakistan relations is not a novel episode, but these recent events over Trump’s transactional turn have pulled up the relationship for more public scrutiny, providing a.
This paper attempts to explore the magni-tude and diversity of the relationship between Pakistan and Iran during the last seventy years. The next section attempts to analyze non-eco-nomic relations between the two neighboring countries. In the third section, an attempt is made to explore economic relations and trade potential among the two countries and finally, the study concludes with an.