“One of the numerous reports that the United States government compiled on Pakistan and terrorism maintained, ‘if one were to make a map of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction collection at this moment, all roads would meet in Pakistan,” write Italian journalists Francesca Marino and Beniamino Natale in their book Apocalypse Pakistan: An Anatomy of ‘the World’s Most Dangerous Nation’ in 2013.
They further write, “The problem is that where terrorism is concerned the agendas and priorities of Islamabad and Washington diverge. The United States is interested to resolve the Afghan conflict, while Islamabad has no interest whatsoever in striking at the fighters, in and around Kabul. Pakistan is considerably irritated by the growing Indian influence in Kabul, and trusts in the Taliban and the fundamentalists, as it has done for some time, to restore its own influence.”