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🇵🇰🇨🇳 Pakistan just quietly walked away from its most important relationship. For years the China-Pakistan relationship was untouchable. Officials in Islamabad described it in language they used for nobody else, "all weather," "deeper than the deepest sea." The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor pumped tens of billions into Pakistani highways, power plants and ports at a time when the country couldn't attract foreign investment from anyone else. It was the one constant in a foreign policy that changed with every government. Then Munir took over and it just... stopped. Of the 90 CPEC projects originally planned, only 38 have been completed. Twenty three are still under construction. A third never even broke ground. The last major project delivered was in 2022. Nothing significant has been added to the pipeline since. ML-1, the flagship upgrade of Pakistan's main north-south railway that was supposed to be the centerpiece of CPEC's entire second phase, has been deferred so many times it's become a running joke. Sharif flew to Beijing in 2024 specifically to secure new funding. He came back with nothing. Pakistan's unpaid dues to Chinese power producers had ballooned into open friction. China's own ambassador in Islamabad took the extraordinary step of publicly accusing the Pakistani state of failing to protect Chinese workers, 21 of whom had been killed in attacks since CPEC launched. Behind the scenes it was even uglier. Pakistan had privately offered China what Beijing had wanted for over a decade, a permanent military base at the deep water port of Gwadar. But Pakistan came to that table with a list of demands. Protect us from U.S. retaliation for hosting the base. Modernize our military. And most critically, give us a sea-based nuclear second strike capability, the most sensitive element of any nuclear arsenal, something Pakistan had been trying to develop on its own for twenty years. China walked away. Beijing concluded the nuclear demand alone would make it directly complicit in nuclear proliferation in South Asia, exposing China to international consequences that made the Gwadar base not worth it. The talks ended bitterly. Munir told a journalist in August 2025, "We will not sacrifice one friend for the other." He had already made his choice long before saying it. Washington got exactly what it wanted. CPEC's second phase is dead. The Gwadar base never happened. And the relationship Pakistan once called deeper than the deepest sea is sitting at the bottom of it. Source: Drop Site News

🇵🇰🇺🇸 The cable that toppled a government is finally public. On March 7, 2022, Pakistan's ambassador in Washington sat down with U.S. assistant secretary of state Donald Lu. The message was short and clear, remove Imran Khan through a no-confidence vote and Washington will look the other way. "All will be forgiven," the ambassador later recalled. Thirty three days later, Khan was gone. But this didn't start with that meeting. In June 2021, CIA Director William Burns personally flew to Islamabad to meet Khan. Waited a full day. Khan never showed. Said he'd only speak to his counterpart, meaning Biden, who had been dodging Khan's calls since day one. Burns left with nothing. Weeks later Khan went on record with Axios and just said it out loud, "Absolutely not. There is no way we are going to allow any bases, any sort of action from Pakistani territory into Afghanistan." No diplomatic cushioning, no ambiguity. Washington had its answer. Pakistan's military had seen enough of their own prime minister. In July 2021, behind Khan's back, the military quietly put a former CIA Islamabad station chief on retainer as a lobbyist in Washington. The generals were already cutting their own deal. Then came the moment that sealed it. On February 24, 2022, the exact day Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, Khan was in Moscow shaking hands with Putin on a long scheduled visit. Biden's national security advisor Sullivan had personally called Islamabad days before urging them to cancel. Khan didn't budge. Pakistan then abstained on the UN vote condemning the invasion. Washington was done. Weeks later came the Lu meeting. The cable. And then Khan was out. What followed was a gut punch. Artillery shells started flowing to Ukraine secretly through U.S. defense contractors. American support for Pakistan's IMF lifeline was explicitly tied to keeping that weapons pipeline running. Pakistan got its $3 billion bailout in July 2023. In February 2024 the military brazenly rigged the elections and the U.S. and EU sat on their hands and said nothing. And Khan? Buried under a never ending conveyor belt of charges, corruption, contempt, national security, one case collapsing only for another to appear. He has been behind bars for nearly 3 years now. His wife still in prison. His party outlawed, stripped of its electoral symbol, barred from even fielding candidates under its own name. The cypher was always real. They called it fake, jailed the man who leaked it, and hoped everyone would move on. They didn't. Source: Drop Site News