Pakistan Army Chief Asim Munir is directly in touch with the Trump administration to persuade the US to excavate rare meaning and oil. Analysts say the deal may offend the local population and entangle Washington into unstable domestic conflict.

Times of Israel report
According to the report published in the Times of Israel, Trump is assured that Pakistan may be a source of rare minerals and oil. But it has been removed from the President’s briefing that mining in areas like Balochistan, Waziristan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will be extremely difficult or impossible. These areas are also hostile to Pakistan’s army and have given up to China here.

Warning of experts
Geophysical expert Sergio Restley says that if Trump continues on this path, the US will again return to the same areas which Biden left, citing Doha Agreement. Other analysts said that Balochistan has long been the center of ethnic and political unrest. The perception of exploitation by external forces has spoiled the situation.

China’s role and local resentment
China’s influence has already increased local dissatisfaction through CPEC (China-Pakistan Economic Corridor). Now if the US is involved in extracting resources, then this protest may increase further.

18th Amendment and local rights
According to the resteli, even after 15 years of the 18th amendment in Pakistan, the provinces have not got real rights on their resources. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is full of marble, granite, gems, chromite and copper, yet this area is poor because the profit goes to the center and does not cost local structures, education or health. The condition of Balochistan is the worst. There is a glut of resources like copper, gold, coal and rare meanings, but it is the poorest and backward province in Pakistan.

American interest and potential results
According to the report, the Trump administration has declared rare minerals as a national security priority and is watching Pakistan to reduce dependence on China. At the same time, Islamabad is eager to get foreign currency. But the deals are always fixed in the center, the army implements them and imposed on the local public.

History is a witness that projects like RECO Dick and Sandak brought a promise of billions of dollars but the local people got homeless, pollution and unrest. If America also joined now, this model will become more rigid.

Possible results- not development, repression
Experts say that such projects will not be development but repression-villages will be converted into siege, disagreement will be made a crime, royalty will be stopped and the army will be deployed in the name of strategic security. As a result, the anti -America will be anger and faster, because at the grassroots level people will find this partnership like American collusion.

Bomb blast: After the terrorist attack in Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir, bomb blasts are now being blasted in Pakistan. In the latest development, at least seven people were killed and 16 others were killed and 16 others were killed in a tremendous bomb blast on Monday (April 28, 2025) outside the office of the pro-government peace committee in southern Waziristan, Northwest Pakistan.

The explosion occurred in Vana, the main city of Southern Waziristan district, which was once considered a stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban. News agency The Associated Press quoted local police chief Usman Wazir as saying that the bomb specifically targeted the Peace Committee office, which openly opposed the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). This committee also plays a role in resolving local disputes. Police officials described the explosion as very powerful, causing a lot of casualties and losses at the scene.

No organization took responsibility

At present, no group has taken responsibility for the attack. However, suspicion is being expressed on TTP itself. It often targets security forces, citizens and organizations which are considered to be cooperative with the Pakistani state. The Pakistani Taliban may be a separate organization but despite this, it has very good relations with the Afghan Taliban and the Taliban took power in Afghanistan after the return of the US and NATO in 2021.

The explosion occurred just a day after the announcement of killing 54 terrorists during an campaign by Pakistan’s army in North Waziristan district. According to news agency AP, those terrorists tried to enter Pakistan from Afghanistan. With this, there has been an atmosphere of instability on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border for a long time.