*WASHINGTON – The United States may be considering restoring the $300million Coalition Support Fund to Pakistan.*
The funds were cut off on September 2 after the US said Pakistan wasn’tdoing enough to combat terrorism within its own borders.
According to The Washington Times,linktheTrump administration is debating whether to reconsider the president’saggressive policy of withholding millions of dollars in sensitive securityassistance.
After the new government came into power, some of Trump’s advisers haveargued that the time is ripe for Washington to begin restoring the militaryaid and ‘resetting’ the relationship between the two countries.
“The Pakistanis needed to be put in their place,” a former White Houseadviser on Pakistan said, but a former US ambassador to the countrycountered that “the recent cutting of security funds was an absolutelyterrible decision.”
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During his recent visit to the country, US Secretary of State MikePompeo told Prime Minister Imran Khan that Washington was eager to resetthe relationship.
Speaking at the Nur Khan Airbase after their talks, Pompeo said, “We’vestill got a long way to go, lots more discussion to be had, but therelationship military-to-military is one that has remained in a place wheresome of the other relationships haven’t, frankly.”
