Implications of Pak-Russia trade on India-Russia Relations
Implications of Pak-Russia trade on India-Russia Relations
Pakistan and Russia have had a long and complicated history, with relations only recently starting to warm up. But what impact will this newfound friendship have on India's relationship with Russia?
Although Pakistan and Russia have a complicated history together, neither nation has ever placed the other at the top of its foreign policy agenda. But in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Pakistan began reviewing its foreign policy and worked to strengthen ties with the Soviet Union. Pakistan provided a base for American intelligence gathering against the Soviet Union until 1970 and joined both the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) and the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) during the Cold War. Automatically, Russia harbored mistrust and hostility towards Islamabad. However, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto’s Moscow visit in 1974 marked the first official engagement between the two nations.
The 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan fundamentally altered the dynamics of the region. Pakistan sponsored anti-Soviet Afghan Mujahideen alongside the US. As a result, relations between Pakistan and the US improved while they soured with the Soviet Union. Following the fall of the USSR and the end of the Cold War, relations between Moscow and Islamabad entered a period of mutual caution as both nations turned their attention to other facets of their respective international portfolios.
Mikhail Fradkov’s visit to Pakistan in 2007 was of significant importance as it marked the first-ever visit by a Russian prime minister to Pakistan since the end of the Soviet Union 38 years ago. After this, Russia started establishing deeper ties through trade with Pakistan, perhaps as part of the Kremlin’s larger outreach to Eurasia and its worries about terrorism stemming from the situation in Afghanistan
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