Militants with US-made arms complicate Washington's bid for critical minerals in Pakistan: CNN

Militants with US-made arms complicate Washington's bid for critical minerals in Pakistan: CNN

The United States’ push to secure critical minerals from Pakistan is colliding with a worsening security crisis in the country’s border regions, where militants armed with US-made weapons are intensifying insurgent violence, a detailed report by CNN revealed on Tuesday. According to the report, Pakistan’s mineral-rich areas, particularly in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, hold vast reserves of copper, lithium, cobalt, gold and other strategi…

How abandoned US weapons help impede Pakistan’s growth

CNN’s Ivan Watson investigates how an insurgency fueled by the American weapons left behind in Afghanistan might compromise the Trump administration’s plans to access valuable rare earths in Pakistan.