The US should treat Pakistan as a ‘state’ like North Korea and create a ‘super alliance’ with India to combat extremism as Islamabad has ‘blackmailed’ America into providing aid to combat terrorism but continues to harbour terrorists, a former Republican Senator has said. “Unless Pakistan changes its ways with respect to terrorism, it should be declared a terrorist state. Several leading foreign policy experts besides me have urged as much. Indeed, the first Bush administration seriously considered doing so in 1992,” larry Pressler, the former US Senator from South Dakota, writes in his latest book ‘Neighbours in Arms: An American Senator’s Quest for Disarmament in a Nuclear Subcontinent’.