For more than a decade, Pakistan and the US were close allies. Pakistan let the US use its air bases to launch drone attacks on Taliban fighters in Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan; allowed its territory to be used as a supply route for NATO forces in landlocked Afghanistan; and, less enthusiastically than the US wished, launched military operations against Taliban sanctuaries on the Pakistani side of the porous border with Afghanistan.
10多年来，巴基斯坦和美国形成了亲密的盟友关系。巴基斯坦允许美国用其空军基地对阿富汗及巴基斯坦西北部的塔利班战机发动无人机攻击，并允许本国领土被用作北约军队在内陆国家阿富汗的补给线，而且虽然没有表现出美国所希望的那种热情，巴基斯坦依然发动了针对漏洞百出的巴阿边境巴方一侧塔利班避难所的军事袭击。