Indo-U.S. courtship

Sir,
I would like to air my views on our relationship with U.S. and how India can leverage it to its advantage.
With the end of cold war, U.S. is no longer worried about the Indo-Soviet axis while formulating its South Asian policies. For the same reason, the U.S - Pakistan axis has also lost its meaning. It is the China factor that influcenes U.S. actions to ensure that there is a credible balance of power -economically as well as militarily. For these reasons, I believe, that U.S. might be willing to let India have its way in maintaining a "credible nuclear detterrent" in order to sign the CTBT. However, India should not be just satisfied with this deal. But in addition, it should try to influence the U.S. to change its views on Pakistan. U.S. also knows that unlike Pakistan, India is not very much dependent on its aid for improving its economy. With a continued push on economic reforms, the Indo-U.S (or for that matter Indo-foreign) relations can be refocused on India's power as a economic giant and not just as yet another "nuclear power". While our policy makers are aware of this, they should also see the threat from across the border in making this happen.
So far, the U.S. has been applying the same the yardstick to Pakistan and India when defining policies. Although the U.S. knows that this is not fair, it's been hesitant to change its stand on Pakistan fearing more terrorist backlash from that hotbed of terrorism. Perhaphs it is clear, to the whole world, by now that Pakistan's soil, money and military are being extensively used by muslim militants to fund terrorist activities in India, Chechnya and Bosnia. So, as a key player in the South-asian region, it is India's responsibility to unmask Pakistan's true face. The Vajpayee administration has been fairly successful in executing this strategy. But even if this policy takes more time than expected and occasional bunglings like the recent hijacking, the government should stay the course.
Thanks.

Sundaram Jawahar, U.S.A