India–United States relations
Relations between India and the United States date back to India's independence movement and have continued well after independence from the United Kingdom in 1947. Currently, India and the United States enjoy close relations and have deepened collaboration on issues such as counterterrorism and countering Chinese influence in the Indo-Pacific.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi with President Joe Biden in the Oval Office in September 2021
Elihu Yale: British-American colonial administrator, and philanthropist, clerk for the East India Company at Fort St. George (now Madras)
John Parker Boyd: American officer who served for the Maratha Empire
Adoniram Judson: The first Baptist American Missionary to India
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
