USA All Set to Release More Than $300m in Blocked Security Assistance to Pakistan
Monday, October 21st, 2013 4:40:42 by Ahmad Mehdi
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has met US secretary of state John Kerry in Washington and the immediate response came in the form of resumption of security assistance worth more than $300m. This aid has been blocked in the after math of the US raid on the Osama Bin Laden compound in Abottabad in 2011 and a subsequent US raid which left 24 Pakistani soldiers dead.
The relation between the two countries however appear to be on the mend;
“This is part of a long process of restarting security assistance cooperation after implementation was slowed during the bilateral challenges of 2011 and 2012,” Marie Harf, deputy State Department spokeswoman, said.
“Both sides agreed on the importance of our continued counterterrorism cooperation, and that extremism is countered in part by opportunities arising from greater economic stability,” added the State Department.
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Posted by Ahmad Mehdi
on Oct 21 2013. Filed under USA, World.
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