Why US is considering restoring security assistance to Pakistan?
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*WASHINGTON - The United States may be considering restoring the $300 million Coalition Support Fund to Pakistan.*
The funds were cut off on September 2 after the US said Pakistan wasn’t doing enough to combat terrorism within its own borders.
According to The Washington Times, link the Trump administration is debating whether to reconsider the president’s aggressive policy of withholding millions of dollars in sensitive security assistance.
After the new government came into power, some of Trump’s advisers have argued that the time is ripe for Washington to begin restoring the military aid and ‘resetting’ the relationship between the two countries.
“The Pakistanis needed to be put in their place,” a former White House adviser on Pakistan said, but a former US ambassador to the country countered that “the recent cutting of security funds was an absolutely terrible decision.”
During his recent visit to the country, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Prime Minister Imran Khan that Washington was eager to reset the relationship.
Speaking at the Nur Khan Airbase after their talks, Pompeo said, “We’ve still got a long way to go, lots more discussion to be had, but the relationship military-to-military is one that has remained in a place where some of the other relationships haven’t, frankly.”
