Pakistan Missing from US 2025 Security Map — Washington’s Shift Delivers A Blow to Islamabad, While India Rejects Trump’s Ceasefire Credit
Islamabad and its military leadership — including Field Marshal Asim Munir — have suffered a serious diplomatic embarrassment as the newly released 2025 National Security Strategy (United States) (NSS) almost completely omits Pakistan, marking a sharp break from past US policy.
Once frequently referenced in Washington’s security planning, Pakistan now finds only one passing mention — a reference to the brief May 2025 conflict with India.
In his public remarks this week, Pakistani Federal Minister Abdul Aleem Khan insisted that carving out smaller provinces is inevitable, arguing it would improve governance and citizen services.
He asserted that breaking up large provinces such as Sindh, Punjab, Balochistan, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa into smaller entities will strengthen “administrative control.”
But experts warn that shifting provincial boundaries cannot remedy Pakistan’s deeper problems — weak institutions, uneven law enforcement, and poor local governance.
As one veteran Pakistani bureaucrat argued, without addressing structural shortcomings, creating new provinces may only widen inequities and entrench inefficiency.
Meanwhile, the US NSS — which now stresses stronger cooperation with India, including through alliances such as the QUAD — shows how Islamabad’s importance has sharply declined in Washington’s Asia-Pacific calculus.
The document also includes US President Donald Trump’s claim that he mediated a ceasefire between India and Pakistan in May 2025.
However, India dismissed this assertion.
New Delhi clarified that there was no third-party mediation — it was Pakistan’s own DGMO who contacted India’s DGMO requesting a cessation of hostilities, and that India responded positively, ending its military offensive, which it had launched to target terrorist camps across the border.
The decision to stop operations was taken by India alone, without any external intervention.
In Parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reiterated this position, calling the ceasefire a result of India’s own decision and rejecting the White House narrative as inaccurate and politically motivated.
Together, these developments portray a drastically altered regional dynamic: Pakistan — once central to American strategy — is now relegated to the margins, even as Islamabad pursues internal administrative restructuring that critics say will do little to resolve its governance crisis.
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