In the United States, a Lawmaker and a former Pentagon official asked Trump administration to stop treating Pakistan as an ally. Congressman Ted Poe, the head of a United States congressional panel and James Clad, a former Pentagon official urged the administration to take steps to reset America's relationship with Pakistan. <br/><br/>In an Article published by the Centre for the National Interest, a Washington think-tank founded by former president Richard Nixon, they claimed that for decades, Pakistan's military and security leaders played a lethal double game, which involved headlong nuclear-weapons production and exporting Islamist terrorism. They argued that successive US administrations had failed to contain Pakistan's links with insurgents which imperiled American lives in Afghanistan and feeding wider instability in Central Asia.<br/>