Didn’t Pakistan fund and house Bin Laden? How can you get more extreme than that?
Here is the problem with your dismissal. The population total is the target and intent. Not counter force. Counter people, and you do that with ground bursts. Plutonium ground bursts, with prevailing winds from the west, blowing into India, killing the 1.5B people there, then the few million in Hong Kong (latitude looks south of the big China centers like Shanghai) and then across the Pacific to the southern US, which we would simply have to evacuate.
The nuclear thinkers have become far to content with presumptions of airbursts. Absolutely not the optimal targeting profile for Pakistan. They want ground bursts along India’s western border, blowing east.
India will retaliate, but they are Muslims. Dying just means they are martyr’ed.
BTW, the areas we have to evacuate . . . that’s our oil supply.