By trying to buy Donald Trump’s goodwill through billion-dollar crypto deals and commercial promises after Operation Sindoor, Pakistan may have secured short-term political dividends.

Whether it has secured its future is another question altogether.

Donald Trump has never hidden his belief that everything is negotiable. Foreign policy, trade, diplomacy, even geopolitics can become transactions if the price is right. Pakistan appears to have understood that before anyone else.

Following Operation Sindoor, Islamabad found itself…