http://ajips.org/index.php/ajips <p class="aboutus-text"><strong>ASIAN Journal of International Peace and Security (AJIPS)</strong> is an <strong>HEC recognized (Y category) </strong>quarterly [since 2021, previously biannual (2020 and annual 2017-2019)] double-blind peer-review research journal of the <strong>Foundation for Advancement of Independent Research and Learning for International Peace and Security (FAIRLIPS).</strong> The foundation aims to promote independent research and learning, both indispensable for securing international peace and security.</p> <p class="aboutus-text">The journal endeavors to advance the mission, principles, aims, and objectives of the foundation. It believes in the principles of strict adherence to objectivity, impartiality, and neutrality as well as access to truth and its transmission. Its main aim is to supplement the foundation’s objectives particularly: to create, promote and disseminate knowledge, and; to provide researchers from all over the world especially from the developing states such as Pakistan and other regional countries a forum to help publish their research on fast track basis.</p> Foundation for Advancement of Independent Research & Learning for International Peace & Security (FAIRLIPS) en-US ASIAN Journal of International Peace & Security (AJIPS) 2707-8809 http://ajips.org/index.php/ajips/article/view/2024-vol-08-issue-3-paradoxes-of-us-pakistan-relationship <p>The US-Pakistan relationship, patterned on the centre-periphery disharmony, has gone through cyclical periods of cooperation and estrangement. In this course, the relationship follows a paradoxical pattern of strategic divergence even during the period of cooperation. In this context, Pakistan receives economic and military assistance from the US in return for playing a role in the latter’s geopolitical pursuits. However, this transactional cooperation carries another paradox pertaining to the benefits and costs of the US assistance for Pakistan. This research is qualitative in nature and follows the technique of thick description to identify and analyze various paradoxical patterns of the US-Pakistan relationship. Data has been collected from both primary and secondary sources. This article identifies various paradoxes in the US-Pakistan relationship with focus on the benefits and costs of the US assistance for Pakistan in post-9/11 period. It argues that disadvantages of the US assistance to Pakistan outweigh the advantages when the direct and indirect cost incurred by the latter is taken into account. Therefore, aid based on a long-term US-Pakistan partnership is the way forward.</p> Muhammad Riaz Shad Yumna Rashid Amir Mustafa Copyright (c) 2024 ASIAN Journal of International Peace & Security (AJIPS) 2024-07-15 2024-07-15 8 3 1 11