Throughout history individuals, communities and nations have collaborated and cooperated with partners to pursue common goals, protect self-interest and ally against common foes – forging agreements, treaties and organizations. These alliances were based on kinship, ideology, trade and commerce, security and even religion and have been an enduring feature of war and conflict across ages. Alliances give a formal context to the basic phenomenon of alignment which amounts to a set of mutual expectations between two or more states that they will have each other’s support in disputes or conflicts with other states (Snyder n.d.).However, it has been leaders – without doubt, altruistic or otherwise, who have forged the path to pursue national interest of their state whether determined through popular consensus or by individual ambitions. Nevertheless, the impact and outcome of the policies and methods adopted by these leaders is shared not only by their own country but also by the neighbouring states and at times even the entire world. The relationship between China and Pakistan has not taken shape of a formal alliance but the collaboration and collusion between them has all the elements that expound the alignment of interests of both countries. In the ever evolving dynamic precept of international relations formal alliances have given way to informal partnerships and complicity between nations to further their interests. The relation between China and Pakistan has flourished despite no common ideological or cultural affinity and has primarily been driven by mutual dependence and practical benefits. Not only has the Chinese backing deprived the people of Pakistan of their rightful development but also has created conditions that make Pakistan an ever existential threat to peace and security in South Asia.