Cooperation Between U.S. and Indian Governments Increasing Rapidly. Pakistan Angry but Still Supports the Taliban

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As U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson heads to Pakistan on Tuesday to pressure Islamabad to act over militants targeting Afghanistan from its soil, anxious Pakistanis may be equally interested in dissuading Washington’s deepening ties with India.U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks at the U.S. embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, October 22, 2017. 

Nuclear-armed Pakistan, a staunch U.S. Cold War ally and key player in the U.S.-backed invasion of Afghanistan after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, has watched warily as Washington has in recent years pivoted towards its arch-foe.