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India-Pakistan
Pakistan Confirms US Suspended Military Training Program
2018-08-19
[ToloNews] Pakistain’s foreign ministry has confirmed the suspension of a US military training program for Pak soldiers.

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
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
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.
Posted by:trailing wife

#5  start the program up with India

As far as I can tell, Frank, we train with just about everyone except North Korea and Iran -- we get to know their people and capabilities, and they get a much more realistic idea of how they compare. I suspect it's prevented quite few foolish adventures over the years..
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-08-19 14:48  

#4  Make it hurt - start the program up with India
Posted by: Frank G   2018-08-19 08:43  

#3  When you are one of the major bases of operation for the enemy in Afghanistan, yep, time to end the relationship. The duplicity of the great game someday catches up.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-08-19 08:34  

#2  I hope the cancellation somehow outweighs the dividends of exposing Paki 'foreign military personnel' (and others) to our system and the potential for establishing long-term intelligence contacts.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-08-19 04:52  

#1  The fact that we cut off the money is the tool we're using to pressurize Pakistan.

We paid them billions for years while they laughed at us for being idiots. No longer.
Posted by: Herb McCoy   2018-08-19 01:41  

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