Pakistan’s star continues to dim in Washington as a country that breeds terrorists and nukes with equal opportunity.It has no real well-wishers left in the US Congress or the Pentagon, and these days even the State Department struggles mightily to whitewash its crimes.US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is expected to deliver a tough message to Pakistan during his brief stopover today before arriving in India later in the day. As a former CIA director, he probably knows the ground realities better than his predecessors. Let’s hope he has other tricks up his sleeve besides a good chiding.But the resourceful Pakistanis have found themselves a most curious defender of their cause – Jack Rosen , president of the Jewish American Congress (JAC). JAC is a semi-important group in the umbrella of US Jewish organisations and Rosen pretty much runs it as a family enterprise.Rosen counts the last three US presidents among his friends — George W Bush apparently used to call him ‘Rosie’, Barack Obama played with his grandchildren for 20 minutes at a dinner in his New York apartment, and Bill Clinton borrowed his private plane for campaigning.A real estate developer, Rosen is connected on both the US and Israeli sides. He regularly speaks out on Twitter in defence of Israel, against anti-Semitism and White supremacists.So, what is he doing publicly defending Pakistan and ignoring the pile of evidence that his own government has amassed over the years? Is he using his position as president of a oncestoried organisation to be a player?Rosen recently called the Trump administration’s policy toward Pakistan “patently absurd” in an article (‘Pakistan Deserves US Support,’ goo.gl/mW1bmM) in International Policy Digest, a foreign policy website out of Seoul.Arguing Pakistan’s case as a victim of terrorism — the article makes no reference to how it birthed and nurtured its zoo of terrorists in the first place — Rosen calls it both “sad and counterproductive for the US to cut off more than a billion dollars in aid”.He faithfully produces Pakistan’s litany of grievances against the US: how it’s been abandoned despite losing over 60,000 people in the war against terrorism, incurring $120 billion in economic costs, how it helped dismantle al-Qaeda and Islamic State (IS) networks, and on and on.Ignore the byline, and the article may as well have been written by the Pakistani Army’s overactive PR department.There is little suspense where Rosen’s information came from. He cites a dinner with Pakistan’s ambassador to the US Ali Jehangir Siddiqui in July, where the servings were clearly selective dipped in a sea of gravy. Showering encomiums on Siddiqui, Rosen takes President Donald Trump to task for dedicating his first tweet of 2018 to Pakistan giving “safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan”. He laments the Pakistani people “must feel abandoned, their sacrifices in vain”.But then, Rosen’s shocking naivete is not new. Way back in 2005, he was promoting General Pervez Musharraf as a man of peace and calling the dictator’s meeting with Jewish leaders a “historic moment”.No one else in the audience seems to have been fooled but Rosen.In a video clip from the past that recently became public, an American who appears to be Rosen is heard asking Musharraf what the US should do to “protect Americans from terrorism, radical Islam”.Without missing a beat Musharraf offers himself as the saviour. “All I am saying is that I have certain credentials from the past. I need to come [to power] again and I need to be supported not overtly but in a covert manner so that we win again.”Predictably, the clip stirred Pakistani Twitter about Musharraf ‘begging’ the Americans for help without any sense of shame or irony.But it is Rosen who is the more curious actor here. He appears to be using whatever clout remains of his organisation to lobby the Trump administration on Pakistan’s behalf. In case Rosen didn’t know, Pakistan’s new prime minister, Imran Khan, has regularly denounced what he calls the “Jewish lobby” for all of Pakistan’s problems.Yigal Carmon, president of the Middle East Media Research Institute , a Washington-based nonprofit that monitors the press, and Tufail Ahmad, senior fellow, recently wrote in World Israel News (‘American Jewish Group Lobbies for Pakistan’s Anti-Semitic, Pro-Jihad PM’, goo.gl/CASyxc) that Rosen using his organisation as a “cover” to lobby was “wrong and damaging” to the Jewish community.Pakistan will try any and every means necessary to make its case, given the dismal state of US-Pakistan relations and the loss of free money. Those buying the sob story, must remember the cardinal principle: caveat emptor.