Overview
- Michael Rubin told ANI there is no strategic logic for Washington to embrace Pakistan and said Islamabad should be designated a state sponsor of terrorism.
- He argued Pakistan should not hold major non-NATO ally status and pressed for a reset that aligns U.S. security interests with its stated concerns.
- Rubin said Pakistan Army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir should be arrested if he visits the United States, criticizing Munir’s White House visit in June.
- He urged a vocal apology to India, pointing to U.S. steps he described as punitive toward New Delhi, including a 50% tariff on Indian imports versus 19% on Pakistani goods and new U.S. agreements with Islamabad on mineral mining and oil exploration.
- His comments follow a year of India–Pakistan tensions that included the April Pahalgam attack, India’s May strikes and a subsequent halt to hostilities, with President Donald Trump claiming credit for the truce and receiving public backing from Pakistan.