India, Feb. 22 -- Pakistan has long played a dangerous double game with the United States.

Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has long operated as the shadowy force behind instability in South Asia, backing jihadist networks in Afghanistan, fomenting terrorism in India, and now, playing a pivotal role in destabilizing Bangladesh. While successive U.S. administrations have tolerated Pakistan's duplicity, the second term of Donald Trump could bring a reckoning unlike any before. The assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in 2020 was a stark warning to all state-backed terror networks: no one is untouchable. Given Pakistan's deep entanglement in Bangladesh's current chaos, its patronage of radical Islamist groups, and it...