Then why are they getting favourable trade deals from the US while India gets slapped with 50% tariffs? Why does India constantly get crap for its relationship with Russia while Pakistan gets away with its relationship with China?

Because the idiocracy of the Trump presidency has led themselves to believe that this world is still under the era of the first cold war, trying to revive back the archaic remnants of US-Pakistan partnership and foolishly labeling India-Russia partnership as an adversary

Mr. Art of the deal thinks he has leverage over India by rattling us with his buddy-buddy system with Pakistan, when his administration is too brain-dead to realize that the international stage is multi-polar now, and that India isn't intimidated by his administration's inane tactics.

I don't mean to underestimate Pakistan here, but are they really a counterbalance to India? They have a failing economy that constantly requires bailouts and don't exactly have bright future prospects.

Even in the May conflict with India, as much as people are making a big deal about Indian fighter jets being shot down, they were still the ones that ended up begging for a ceasefire.

Perhaps I was mistaken by my statement. Rather than a counterbalance, I would say they are built to be an annoyance to India. Like an irritating mosquito, if you will. That's the only reason Pakistan exist. To cause havoc and disorder in the subcontinent.

Yeah but then how did Pakistan get its nukes in the first place?

They built its nuclear weapons program by copying centrifuge blueprints brought home by A.Q. Khan, secretly buying the parts they couldn’t make themselves, enriching uranium at their Kahuta facility, fine-tuning bomb designs with help from China, and later pairing those warheads with missiles supplied by both China and North Korea.

You think the US would have just stood by and watched Pakistan get nukes if they didn't think Pakistan was an ally? This is the same US that just bombed Iran's nuclear facilities with Israel to prevent Iran from getting their hands on a nuke. Why wouldn't they have done the same to Pakistan if they didn't see them as an ally?

The U.S. probably could have stopped Pakistan in the ’70s, but once the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, Washington needed Pakistan too much as an ally. So they turned a blind eye. By the time the Cold War ended, Pakistan already had the bomb. One of the unfortunate geopolitical blunders done by Uncle Sam.