U.S.-Pakistan $500M Minerals Deal Masks Risks to American Interests and Regional Stability

The recent $500 million memorandum of understanding between Missouri-based U.S. Strategic Metals and Pakistan’s Frontier Works Organization heralds an ambitious attempt to unlock Pakistan’s vast mineral resources. At first glance, this deal appears as a win-win—boosting economic ties while supplying critical minerals essential for American manufacturing and energy innovation. Is This Investment Truly Advancing America’s Sovereignty? Yet beneath the surface lies a complex geopolitical and security puzzle that Washington cannot afford to ignore. Most of Pakistan’s mineral wealth resides in Balochistan—a province rife with separatist insurgencies fiercely opposing foreign extraction efforts. The U.S. State Department has even labeled militant factions...