Tanzania, March 25 -- Towards the end of June, Lindsay Ford, a former Biden Administration advisor on South Asia, warned of an emerging nuclear threat to the US from Pakistan.

Ford argued that growing paranoia in Islamabad, triggered by this year's American strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, could logically lead to the acceleration of Pakistan's long-range missile programme and the eventual development of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) capable of reaching the US itself.

As an established nuclear power, this would allow Pakistan to launch nuclear warheads far further than previously possible.

This potentially poses an unprecedented threat to the US mainland - one that had previously been reserved only for America's trad...