Pakistan–United States relations
Pakistan and the United States established relations on 15 August 1947, a day after the independence of Pakistan, when the United States became one of the first nations to recognize the country.
Former PM Imran Khan and Donald Trump during 2019 UNGA.
In 2021, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman told the Pakistani government, “We don’t see ourselves building a broad relationship with Pakistan, and we have no interest in returning to the days of hyphenated India-Pakistan,” she added. “That’s not where we are. That’s not where we’re going to be.”
Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan meeting President Harry Truman.
U.S. Vice President Alben W. Barkley explains the 1948 version of the Vice President's seal to Prime Minister Liaqat Ali Khan of Pakistan and his wife
Muhammad Ayub Khan, widely known as Ayub Khan was a Pakistani army officer who served as the second president of Pakistan from 1958 to 1969. He previously served as the third Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army from 1951 to 1958.
Khan in West Germany in 1961
General Ayub Khan as C-in-C of the Pakistan Army, in his office, 23 January 1951
Ayub Khan in 1958 with H. S. Suhrawardy and Mr. and Mrs. S. N. Bakar
Ayub Khan (back row, second from the right) with Elizabeth II, former Queen of Pakistan at the 1960 Commonwealth Prime Minister's Conference, Windsor Castle