Thursday’s announcement by the ministry reflects continued tensions between the two allies in the war on terror.
The training of Pak soldiers in the United States is the latest program to be hurt by the cutoff of security aid to Pakistain, which was announced at the beginning of this year.
The United States often accuses Pakistain of harboring bad boy groups and providing safe havens for gunnies who carry out attacks in neighboring Afghanistan, a charge Islamabad denies and says U.S. criticism is unfair.
Pakistain also repeatedly reminds the United States that it has lost thousands of soldiers ‐ more than the US and NATO
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combined in Afghanistan ‐ fighting hard boyz on its territory.
This comes after the United States Congress made a significant cut to the security-oriented financial aid to Pakistain earlier this month.
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2019 ramped up the military spending and avoided policy changes that would have antagonized US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
In the latest NDAA, the security aid to Islamabad ‐ that had once started from almost $750 million per year to $1 billion ‐ was marked down to a mere $150 million. However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
it also relaxed certain conditions that were attached with the financial assistance, including action against the Haqqani Network and the Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the Army of the Pure,an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is
banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
(LeT), AFP said in a report on August 3.
This crucial reduction translates into the fact that the Pentagon might not have any tools to pressurize Pakistain into taking action against the banned bad boy outfits. The US had earlier used these funds to ask Islamabad to do more with regard to the counter-terrorism operations, especially against the Haqqani Network.