Officially allies in fighting extremism, Pakistan and the US have had a complicated relationship over the years, bound by Washington’s dependence on Pakistan to supply its troops during its long war in Afghanistan
and now further complicated by Pakistan’s appetite for an affordable natural gas supply.
Where does the extremism lie? In the continuing and seemingly endless US support for militant Zionism?
In Pakistan’s Pashtun-Taliban links and its incremental takeover of Baluchistan?
In the extent of Iran’s now into-eighth-decade and still-strong pro Palestinian sentiment and with its incremental determination to fully incorporate its Baluch-minority-tribal-peoples, into the Iranian mainstream?