America should satisfy Pakistan's trade needs if it is so concerned about keeping it's enemies under sanctions.

Recently the American government has raised concerns about Pakistan's upcoming gas pipeline deal with Iran to meet it's energy needs.
Iran has for a long time been facing sanctions from America and the West ever since the 1979 revolution and the sanctions have been increased with the support of the EU due to Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program.

The Americans are naive and arrogant to believe that countries outside of the G8 will go about their sanction agenda. When the USA sanctioned Pakistan over it's testing of nuclear weapons in 1998, it somehow expected the same from China.

China was not part of the joint bid to put sanctions on Pakistan and hurt it's own economy just to satisfy America and neither will Pakistan right now sacrifice it's energy needs for the same reason.
Pakistan is not part of the G8 nor is it under any oath to be a part of any joint sanction program against any country sanctioned by the EU/US/G8 etc.

It is not that I wish to be supportive of Iran's government or many of it's people who have a deep rooted hatred towards Pakistanis.
I am just concerned about the interests of Pakistan and at America's arrogance to think Pakistan should sacrifice it's energy needs just to please them.

Also it is again necessary to mention that Pakistan would not need to import energy resources had it's population stayed at a sustainable number. It is a terrible tragedy that even with all the resources we have to sustain our country, we exploited them by not keeping our overpopulation crisis in check and only continue to let it grow.

If America really wants to stay committed to sanctioning Iran by all countries, it should provide any country that is trading with a sanctioned enemy an alternate solution.
In the case of Pakistan America should seek an alternate and sustainable energy supply for Pakistan. How it should be done is America's sole problem.

It can either broker a deal with Saudi Arabia or another Gulf Arab state to supply the extra energy to Pakistan at lower costs with America paying to make up for the discount prices. Whichever the best solution would be is America's worry as I mentioned, not Pakistan's.

This is something for the American government to plan for and discuss a solution to present Pakistan with before dictating it's terms of trade to other countries.