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The killing of Osama bin Laden has sparked a wave of attacks in Pakistan, particularly on its border with Afghanistan. This week hundreds of “militants” reportedly crossed over the border from Afghanistan and clashed with Pakistani troops, leading to 70 people dead. Inside Pakistan, attacks by the Pakistani Taliban have also increased. Last Wednesday a suicide bomber drove a car laden with explosives into a police station in Peshawar. Five police officers and one soldier was killed. The site of the attack was just half a mile from the U.S. Consulate office where a car bomb was detonated a week earlier, aimed at a consular convoy. But Pakistan’s government agencies are also suspected of crimes, like the killing this week of an investigative reporter, Syed Saleem Shahzad. Meanwhile, a new publication by Wikileaks, of a 2008 U.S. diplomatic cable reveals that the Pakistani military has been inculcating its top officers with an anti-American bias. Military training courses were found to instill views highly critical of the Pakistani military’s foreign benefactor. While the Pakistani Taliban has unleashed its fury, relations between the Pakistani government and the U.S. have also come under very serious strain in the wake of bin Laden’s fatal raid. According to Dilip Hiro, author of “After Empire: The Birth of a Multipolar World,” the Obama administration may have miscalculated its Pakistan strategy because it is underestimating the influence that China has wielded on Pakistan.

GUEST: Dilip Hiro, political writer, journalist, historian and analyst specializing in the politics of Asia and the Middle East, author of more than 30 books, including “After Empire: The Birth of a Multipolar World”