The reason behind this is that the world race has provided economic policy with a different meaning. Innovative planning in industry, defense production and energy transition now revolve around copper, the rare earths, graphite, nickel, cobalt and other strategic inputs. Global Critical Minerals Outlook 2025 by the International Energy Agency and the March 2025 order by the White House on American mineral production shows how far this has been accomplished. The January 2026 declaration of the US Trump administration regarding processed critical minerals and an ultimate list of critical minerals published in 2025 by the US Geological Survey as well as a recent analysis by the Council on Foreign Relations also point in the correct direction: The United States is beginning to view mineral security as national security.

This is what makes Pakistan greater as compared to the same two years back. In April 2025, Reuters said Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a meeting with Pakistani foreign minister and talked about critical minerals. In August 2025, Reuters once more cited Washington being interested in having cooperation with Pakistan around critical minerals and hydrocarbons. Outreach has been conducted as well at State Department about the mining opportunities in Pakistan. Most importantly, we have the Pakistan minerals conference that drew the attention of US, China and the Gulf and it is hard to agree........

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