Srinagar, Dec. 12 -- For nearly eight decades, the United States has treated Pakistan as a prized strategic asset in South Asia, a relationship that has repeatedly undermined India's sovereignty and prolonged the suffering of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. From the Cold War to the War on Terror and now to the renewed great power competition with China, Washington's policy towards Islamabad has followed a remarkably consistent pattern: generous military and economic assistance, diplomatic protection at critical moments and a deliberate blindness to Pakistan's use of terrorism as an instrument of state policy against India. The result has been catastrophic for Kashmir, because American geopolitical calculations invariably place Pakistan's...