Pakistan’s strategic importance as an ally to the US has sharply diminished due to Islamabad’s continued support for resurgent militant groups hostile to Washington, as well as warming American military and business relations with India, according to US officials and outside experts.
The US has cut both military and economic assistance to Pakistan sharply in recent years, reflecting growing frustration among American officials with the nuclear-armed country’s support for the Taliban militant group in neighboring Afghanistan, US military, diplomatic, and intelligence officials and outside experts said, Reuters reported.
US officials and analysts say that Islamabad’s support of the Taliban has hurt US-Pakistan ties for more than a decade, but the frustration has further spiked as the militant group has advanced in parts of Afghanistan that US and NATO forces once helped to secure.
“We’re seeing a very definitive and very sharp reorienting of US…