After enjoying elevated diplomatic status and praise from US President Donald Trump as a regional mediator and a close US ally as well as offering lucrative deals to businesses linked to Trump's family, Pakistan now faces an aggressive push from Trump to abandon its historical foreign policy stance.
Trump has created a major diplomatic dilemma for Pakistan by asking it via social media to join the Abraham Accords. Trump insisted that normalisation of ties with Israel should be a compulsory requirement for a group of Muslim-majority nations that includes Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. This unexpected demand places Trump's "favourite Field Marshall", Pakistani military chief Asim Munir in a difficult position, the de facto head of Pakistan, whom Trump has given far more importance than Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
