India and Pakistan | The United States Should Not Treat Pakistan as an Ally Against Terrorism

In the following viewpoint, Leon Hadar argues that Pakistan has a history of aiding terrorist groups and should not be viewed as an ally in America’s war against terrorism. According to Hadar, Pakistan helped leaders of the Taliban regime— which the United States has accused of supporting the terrorist organization al-Qaeda—during America’s war against terrorism in Afghanistan in 2001. Hadar asserts that Pakistan is a nuclear dictatorship committed to supporting Islamic radicals and should not be trusted. Leon Hadar is a research fellow in foreign policy studies at the Cato...

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