India, Sept. 28 -- Pakistan had been sidelined by the West and the US after the Taliban's return to Afghanistan in late 2021. It has re-emerged on the global geopolitical stage now, and is in a strategic sweet spot. Pakistan army chief Asim Munir recently made his third visit to Washington, along with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, and met US President Donald Trump at the White House. Although the exact US-Pakistan plans for South Asia are unclear, Trump's outreach to Pakistan has firmly repositioned Islamabad at the core of regional geopolitics. That Pakistan-US relations are deepening in the wake of an India-Pakistan military conflict - which also highlighted Pakistan's dependence on China for defence - underscores the complex play behi...