Presumably in order to fulfill the RAND corporation’s call for a major war to save the US economy:

http://www.infowars.com/conflict-between-pakistan-and-india-realizing-rands-plan-for-world-war-three/

A US covert asset based in pakistan arranged for the mumbai attacks in india which were initially blamed on pakistan until india realized who he was working for.

http://web.archive.org/web/20110429095226/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6960182.ece

My guess is the US is quickly falling out of favor in the region.  Who wants to be a kamikaze puppet for a would-be global empire?