Avoid? US should have made better offer to make sure Pakistan remains in its camp. Instead it totally ignored Pakistan to show its true Auqaat.
so just last year in August our army chief was guest of honor in Pentagon and he got a hefty deal to replenish F 16 spares etc but within a year our aukaat came down??
Pakistan is actually tired of better US offers which always created problems for us and biggest hurdle was military equipment which is now largely not reliant on US (F 16 still exception).
US is upset that we are not sacrificing our interest to cater for US and to counter China it needs all the help of Chinas enemies as it can get so it went to Randia(india) and naturally Pakistan had to look elsewhere...