Withheld income is a repayment, not an aid, Pakistan tells US
Aizaz Chaudhry. PHOTO: REUTERS
WASHINGTON: Reacting to Pentagon’s preference to secrete $50 million of a bloc support account (CSF), Pakistan’s envoy to a United States has pronounced that Pakistan has paid a towering tellurian and financial cost in a quarrel opposite terrorism.
“It is a obvious fact that Pakistan’s counter-terrorism efforts have resulted in a poignant decrease in terrorists attacks,” Ambassador Aizaz Chaudhry pronounced while articulate to APP on Saturday.
He also emphasised that a supports in questions were a payment of a losses incurred by Pakistan towards achieving “our common objectives in a quarrel opposite terrorism” and were not assistance.
The US stopped a supports after Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis told Congress during a conference that he could not determine that Pakistan had done adequate efforts opposite Taliban and a Haqqani group.
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Ambassador Chaudhry pronounced Pakistan also spearheaded a quarrel opposite terrorism and achieved poignant successes. “Pakistan is progressing a movement in fighting terrorism as is clear from Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad and a recently-launched Operation Khyber-IV,” he said.
The US had allotted $900 million to Pakistan underneath a CSF, of that $550 million had already been reimbursed. Of a remaining amount, $300 million had been cold by Congress as partial of a broader appropriations act.
Pentagon orator Adam Stump, however, pronounced that self-denial of supports did not revoke a stress of a sacrifices that a Pakistani troops had undertaken over prior years.
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