Pakistan-US relations never remained the same to date and are now almost strained. The countries were on good terms when the United States needed Pakistan and the cordial relations reached freezing point whenever the interest of the United States ended with Pakistan. From Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan to PM Imran Khan, relations are unpredictable. According to the situation, this relationship has often waxed and waned.
‘Do more’ remained a permanent pillar and component of the relations between Pakistan and the United States. Pakistan always tried its best to facilitate and make the superpower happy but it could never do that in history, especially during the 20 years of War on Terror. In the Afghan war of the 1980s, Pakistan became a frontline player of United States inertia against the USSR on the land of Afghanistan. But after the huge sacrifices from Pakistan, the US put sanctions on Pakistan after their withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989. 
The Pressler Amendment banned most military and economic assistance to Pakistan. Now, history is going to repeat itself after almost 30 years. The US has again gone from Afghanistan unsuccessful and it wants to sanction Pakistan again as a face saving for the country and the people of the United States. A bill was presented in the Senate of United States to sanction Pakistan and to investigate Pakistan’s alleged role in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2021. 
The Pakistani government is labelled with the allegations of providing financial support, intelligence support, sanctuary space, logistics, and medical support, equipping, training, and tactical, operational, or strategic direction and also for assisting the Taliban for collapsing the US-backed government in Afghanistan. This bill will lead the Pakistani rupee to low. Also if the country is sanctioned, it will be unable to gain loans from any international monetary institution including IMF.
President Biden called many world leaders after taking office but he didn’t call Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan despite the fact that Pakistan is the biggest stakeholder in peace in the region and Afghanistan.
There was no US Ambassador in Pakistan for the last three years but now an ambassador has been granted the station of Islamabad to work for the United States. On the other hand, the prime minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, is talking about the defeated withdrawal of the US from Afghanistan in his every interview with international media. 
Their aim is to convict Pakistan for the outcome in Afghanistan. The attitude of the US towards Pakistan can weaken the country financially and consequently terrorist groups can re-emerge, also proceeding a new wave of hatred among the Pakistani population towards the US.
After the Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken had said that the US would be looking at its relationship with Pakistan in the coming weeks to formulate what role Washington would want it to play in the future of Afghanistan.
The Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives was told by Secretary Blinken that Pakistan had a “multiplicity of interests, (in which) some are in conflict with ours.”
Lawmakers asked if it was time for Washington to reassess its relationship with Pakistan, Blinken said the administration would soon be doing that.
“This is one of the things we’re going to be looking at in the days, and weeks ahead — the role that Pakistan has played over the last 20 years but also the role we would want to see it play in the coming years and what it will take for it to do that,” he said.
Pakistan hosted many important Americans in Islamabad after 15th August, the fall of Kabul. The US Deputy Secretary of State, Wendy Sherman, was one of them. She was received by a midcareer officer while reaching the foreign office of Pakistan. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi met her in his office. Deputy Secretary Wendy Sherman went to India after Pakistan where she gave some disturbing statements. 
Sherman, who was speaking at an event in Mumbai during the last day of her two-day visit to India, said her Pakistan visit is for a “particular set of reasons” and is not meant to once again rebuild a broader relationship with the country.
“We (the US) don’t see ourselves building our broad relationship with Pakistan and we have no interest in returning to the days of a hyphenated India, Pakistan. That’s not where we are, that’s not where we are going to be,” Sherman said.
Obviously, the US-Pakistan relationship is increasingly deteriorating again. Pakistan is already facing so many problems in the country including the problem of economy. Now, the US wants air space and Pakistan cannot afford another war on terror at its soil. 
It is high time for the US to show the real picture to the world accepting its defeat in the region and it should stop blaming Pakistan for its failure in Afghanistan. 
– The writer tweets @UmerInamPk