By Harold Gould, a visiting scholar at the Center for South Asian Studies ... A successful collaboration with US and coalition forces will increase Pakistan's chances of neutralising, if not eliminating, the Jihadist quasi-state now in control of the Hindu Kush. It would also materially improve the chances for the Pakistani middle-class and the moderate political environment that recent elections set in motion to complete the task of bringing Pakistan into the mainstream of democratisation now enveloping global society.