The Center for US-Pakistan Affairs is an independent action tank examining the security, economic, and diplomatic ties between the two countries, and the wider currents of great-power competition that increasingly shape them.
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Argues that US-China competition over rare-earth processing has structurally shifted the US-Pakistan relationship from aid toward trade, and traces the sequence of steps that led to the September 2025 memorandum of…
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The Global Issue Map follows the places and questions, near Pakistan and far from it, where American power and policy shape Pakistan’s security, economy and diplomacy. Each issue shows whether it is getting better or worse, and how much it matters for relations between Washington and Islamabad.
The first issues are being reviewed by CUPA’s editors and will appear on the map soon. In the meantime, read how issues are chosen, rated and kept up to date.
Agreements, shipments and investment in the minerals partnership between Pakistan and the United States.
CUPA exists to identify where American and Pakistani interests genuinely overlap, and to build the research, relationships, and institutional habits that let both countries act on that overlap rather than talk past it. Security cooperation, trade and investment, energy, health, and migration are treated as one connected relationship rather than isolated files. The Centre works to promote sustained bilateral cooperation between the two countries, translating research into recommendations that officials, investors, and civil society on both sides can actually use.
Pakistan is the corpus callosum of the world. It sits at the junction where East meets West, joining two hemispheres of interest, trade, and security the way that structure joins the two hemispheres of the brain. A relationship this consequential cannot be managed by instinct alone. It has to be studied, understood, and deliberately connected. Shabnam Yousaf, Founder & Director
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Where the relationship is tested in practice, not just in communiqués.
Analysis of bilateral trade flows, investment protection, and the commercial opportunities that connect the two economies in practice.
Research on the energy corridors, power infrastructure, and resource partnerships that underpin long-term economic cooperation between the two countries.
Research and field programs addressing public health capacity, health system resilience, and health security cooperation between the United States and Pakistan.
Research and direct field programs addressing human trafficking, migrant smuggling, and safe migration pathways affecting both countries.
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