Didn’t Pak just recently throw in with the Chinese as their new weapons supplier? That ought to tell the world everything they need to know about Pak’s intentions. And yet here’s an article that frames the Pak problem entirely in terms of being caught between wanting to help the US and dealing with their own internal extremist problem. I’m no State Dept. strategist, but it would seem to me that Pak has no interest in truly helping the US; they merely want to stall the US long enough to secure alternate means of support, at which point they will kick the US to the curb.
Of import in that weapons supply issue is a renewed threat to India. India is still trying to finalize their claim to the Jammu and Kashmir regions, against pressure from Pak and China. If Pak becomes a satellite state of China, that border war may heat up quickly.
There’s never been a point in the last 50 years that Pakistan has ceased being a Chinese satellite. The media and ‘analysts’ have been comatose for half-a-century.