This time, it was the growing dependence on Saudi aid—Bhutto had pulled Pakistan out of the US-aligned SEATO alliance and cut ties to American coffers—that most affected the choices made by the state. ..…

And almost as soon as he takes office, there are Predator missiles flying over Pakistan, killing people. They tell us they’re aimed at terrorists. Truth is, they don’t know who the terrorists are. ..…

strategic rethink in Pakistan Army's top-brass took place after the terror attack, when Richard Armitage, US Deputy Secretary of State during Bush administration, threatened General Musharraf in so many words.. ..…

AMERICA HAS always played this sort of carrot-and-stick policy with us. ... Tariq Ali wasn’t exaggerating when he called Pakistan a “U.S. satrapy.” ..…

Think of our Indian Wars, which lasted roughly 300 years (circa 1600–1890), or the British deployment on the North West Frontier (today’s Pakistan-Afghanistan border), which lasted 100 years (1840s–1940s). . . Conditions on the ground could certainly get worse after a US withdrawal,..…

Close military relations between the US and Pakistan made it tactically crucial for India to garner support from the then Soviet Union. ..…