Pakistan’s longstanding nightmare scenario has been a two front threat - from India in the east and an externally supported incursion from the west. The two front threat is now a reality except that it is from the Pakistan Taliban (TTP - Tehrik Taliban Pakistan) aided and abetted by Al Qaeda in the west and from its own internal situation that is an amalgam of a nationalist separatist movement in Baluchistan, the lawlessness in Karachi, a rising nationalist feeling in Sind, militant extremist organizations with linkages to the threat from the west and a steady economic decline whose impact will inevitably be long term. India is now considered a silent spectator or a behind the scenes operator. Given the US presence in Afghanistan and the stable strategic US-India relationship the US-Pakistan relationship assumes great importance and significance.
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