Woodrow Wilson International Center For Scholars

Though Pakistan gets billions of Dollars in US aid and takes in tonnes of military hardware, it continues to patronise proxy groups, a top American expert on South Asia has said while emphasising on this "dysfunctional dynamic" in the bilateral relationship.

He is called a superhero and feted with financial rewards from Afghan politicians, but the lionisation of the soldier who singlehandedly killed six attackers in parliament belies bubbling discontent over deteriorating security.

Though Pakistan gets billions of Dollars in US aid and takes in tonnes of military hardware, it continues to patronise proxy groups, a top American expert on South Asia has said while emphasising on this "dysfunctional dynamic" in the bilateral relationship.

He is called a superhero and feted with financial rewards from Afghan politicians, but the lionisation of the soldier who singlehandedly killed six attackers in parliament belies bubbling discontent over deteriorating security.