Revisit F-16 understanding to strengthen Pak-US ties, says Jilani
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WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s envoy to a United States has suggested that a new supervision in Washington can strengthen counter-terror team-work with Islamabad by revisiting a sale of F-16 warrior jets and solution issues with a Coalition Support Fund (CSF).
“Cooperation between Pakistan and a US in a quarrel opposite terrorism will be serve strengthened by revisiting a sale of F-16s and CSF issues,” Jalil Abbas Jilani told American imitation and electronic media correspondents during a accepting for them during a Pakistan Embassy in Washington. He pronounced Pakistan looks brazen to closely operative with a incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump.
In Apr final year, US lawmakers blocked a pierce by a Obama administration to finance Pakistan’s squeeze of 8 F-16 warrior jets after accusing Islamabad of ‘not doing enough’ to moment down on militants.
Speaking to US media representatives, Jilani pronounced Pakistan and a US had a ancestral attribute that spanned over 7 decades. He pronounced a interests of both countries converged on several issues and that this would assistance strengthen their shared ties in a future.
Replying to a question, a envoy pronounced Pakistan had launched a successful debate to tackle militancy and apprehension incidents in a nation had subsequently left down by 70%. In response to another question, he pronounced while there is no organized Da’ish participation in Pakistan, Islamabad is endangered about a ultra-radical Middle Eastern group’s flourishing change in beside Afghanistan.
Talking about Pakistan’s economy, he pronounced a country’s batch marketplace had surpassed all others in a region.
Published in The Express Tribune, Jan 15th, 2017.
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