For decades, the geopolitical alliance between the United States and Pakistan has been characterized by a profound and dangerous paradox: a public marriage of strategic necessity masking a private reality of calculated betrayal. This complex dynamic traces its roots to the 1980s, when Washington and Islamabad collaborated to arm the Mujahideen against the Soviet Union, effectively institutionalizing terrorist proxies as a lethal extension of Pakistani foreign policy. This analysis covers Pakistan’s double cross of United States after 9/11 where it has regularly abetted terrorist groups networks from Al Qaeda to other terrorist groups against India committing one of the most dastardly attacks on Mumbai 26/11 in the year 2008.
The historical timeline of events of Pakistan’s double cross, details of its sponsorship of terrorism from 9/11 to 26/11 attacks (2001-08) in Part 1 to 9 this article are based on the groundbreaking investigative reporting of the late Syed Saleem Shahzad. His seminal 2011 book, “Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban: Beyond Bin Laden and 9/11”, remains an indispensable primary source for understanding of Pakistan’s double cross and sponsorship of terrorism as an instrument of state policy.
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