Keating is a ranking member of the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Non-Proliferation and Trade.
He said Pakistain used terrorism as a tool for its strategic needs and there was no reason to believe that it would change its policies.
Two of the top al-Qaeda leaders have been killed in Pakistain, Keating said, adding that the arms supply to Pakistain would be used against India.
The subcommittee held a hearing on the Pakistain-US relations and had invited former diplomats and experts.
In his testimony, the former top American diplomat, Zalmay Khalilzad,
| ...the Afghan-born American academic who served President George W. Bush as ambassador to Iraq, Afghanistan, and the UN... |
"It is also clear that it provides sanctuary and support to the Taliban," he said while asking the administration to change its policy towards Pakistain."We also need to suspend all military and non-education assistance," he said in his testimony during the hearing titled ’Pakistain: Friend or Foe in the Fight Against Terrorism?’
"Patience is growing very thin," Congressman Matt Salmon, Chairman of the Asia and Pacific Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said.
Congressman Brad Sherman, ranking member of the subcommittee, said "Those who suggest giving aid to Pakistain need to give justification for using the tax payers’ money."
This comes as the Afghan officials have long been raising concerns regarding the presence of the Taliban group and Haqqani network
leadership councils in Pakistain.They are saying that the two groups are having leadership councils based in both Quetta and Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
cities of Pakistain from where they launch attacks in Afghanistan.