Pakistan has asked the United States to provide an air squadron consisting of 10 helicopters and two planes for its Interior Ministry, reported Geo television channel on Sunday.
Brigadier Javed Iqbal Cheema, the ministry’s Crisis Management Cell director general, told reporters about Islamabad’s request for the aircraft to contend with terrorists. Cheema returned from a Pak-US Joint Working Group meeting on combating terrorism in Washington on Saturday. He said the US would be training local law enforcement agencies’ functionaries in rooting out terrorism. “Washington was all praise for Pakistan’s initiatives against terrorism,” he added.
He said the meeting discussed development projects in tribal areas, law and order situation, police reforms and an automated fingerprint identification system. The meeting also deliberated on thwarting drugs smuggling |