The Pakistani elites have shown once again that they can beat their Indian counterparts hands down in sucking up to the Americans. The manner in which they wormed their way back into the bed with the Trump administration takes the breath away. They apparently planted ‘actionable intelligence’ on the US agencies regarding the whereabouts of American citizen Caitlan Coleman and her Canadian husband Joshua Boyle along with their three children, got the Americans, in turn, to request their intelligence to act on that bit of ‘actionable’ intelligence – and thereafter they acted with brutal efficiency to get the hostages released and handed over to the Americans.(…)
What happens next? Has Pakistan had a change of heart, as Trump insists on believing? The plain truth is that the more things seem to change, the more they stay the same. Pakistan’s capacity to string the Americans is infinite. For the Americans, too, there is no choice but to chug along since they simply cannot maintain a military presence in Afghanistan without Pakistani acquiescence and ‘cooperation’.