Nixon to Trump: Pakistan’s long record as backchannel between rival powers
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Source: Al Jazeera
Published: 2026-03-28 01:38 UTC+10:00
Section: General
Factuality Score: 100
Opinion Category: Neutral
Topics: Politics, Military & Defence, Weather, China, World News, US Politics, War & Conflict, Asia Pacific
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Islamabad, Pakistan – In the middle of 1971, at the height of the Cold War, a Pakistani government plane carrying US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger flew overnight from Islamabad to Beijing. The trip was secret, the facilitator was Pakistan, and the geopolitical consequences were generational.
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