Coupled with a statement of the Agency of spying military officer of the army top American last week linking Pakistan to the murder of Pakistani journalist, the stop or the withdrawal of military equipment and other aid to Pakistan illustrates the depth of the debate within the administration of Obama on how to modify the behavior of one of its key partners fight against terrorism.
In total, about 800 million dollars in military aid and equipment, or more than a third of more than $ 2 billion in annual aid of us security in Pakistan, could be affected, said three senior officials of the United States.
This assistance includes about $ 300 million to reimburse Pakistan for some of the cost in excess of 100,000 soldiers along the Afghan border to combat terrorism, and hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to education and the military materiel, half a dozen of deployment of the Congress, Pentagon and other administration officials who received the anonymity to discuss the politically sensitive issue.
Some of the shortened aid is material that the United States wants to send but now Pakistan refuses to accept, as guns, ammunition, armor gear and bomb-disposal body that have been removed or blocked after Pakistan ordered more than 100 trainers Army Special Forces leave the country in recent weeks.
Some devices, such as radios, night vision goggles and parts of the helicopter, which can be implemented, certified or used for training, because Pakistan has refused visas to American personnel necessary to operate equipment, two senior Pentagon officials said.
And sometimes help as reimbursements for troop costs, which is currently considered in light of questions about the commitment of Pakistan to conduct operations to fight against terrorism. For example, the United States recently in Pakistan with information about suspected bomb-making plants, only to have the insurgents disappear before the coming of the Pakistani security forces a few days later.
"When it comes to our military assistance," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told a Senate Committee last month "we are not prepared to continue to him that at the pace that we were providing less than and up to what we see some action." "".
US officials say that they probably resume deliveries of equipment and assistance if relations improve and Pakistan continues aggressive terrorists. The thresholds do not affect any immediate shipments of military sales to Pakistan, such as aircraft, F-16 fighter, or nonmilitary aid officials said.
Pakistan specific military budget is not known, and while the decision of the US aid would probably have a low impact on the overall military budget, it would more directly affect the counterinsurgency campaign. The Pakistani army spent nearly a quarter of annual expenditures of the nation, according to k. Alan Kronstadt of Congressional Research Service.
While some officials have concluded that Pakistan will never type of partner, the administration has hoped for when President Obama entered the Office, others point out that the United States is a complete rupture of relations or a complete break of similar to what aid arrived in the 1990s, when Pakistan was caught developing nuclear weapons.
But much of recent reductions in aid are clearly intended to force the Pakistani army to make a difficult choice between the choirs in the country which finances most of its operations and its equipment, or continue to provide a secret support for the Taliban and other militants fighting US troops in Afghanistan.
"We have to continue to emphasize with Pakistanis, in the end, it is in their interest to be able to go after these goals as well," Secretary of Defense Leon e. Panetta told journalists Friday en route in Afghanistan.
Some US officials say that Pakistan has only itself to blame, citing the decision of the Pakistani army to distance itself from us in response to humiliation aid suffered RAID commando American in Abbottabad, Pakistan, that killed Osama bin Laden, and increase the anger officials Pakistan intermediate and Pakistan as senior military publicincluding the General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the powerful army Chief of staff, are too conciliatory to the Americans.
Eric Schmitt reported from Washington and Jane Perlez Islamabad, Pakistan. David e. Sanger contributed reporting from Washington and Ismail Khan in Peshawar, Pakistan.
on 10 July (Bloomberg) — the Republic of South Sudan becomes the 193 rd of the world yesterday, nation with its President, saying that after 50 years of rebellion against the Muslim north, it is time to fight poverty, corruption and internal struggles. "From today, we will have no excuse or a scapegoat to blame," President Salva Kiir said in a speech before tens of thousands of people in the capital of southern Sudan, Juba, cheering after he swore oath for a term of four years. " "Official corruption has been one of our serious challenges."The new independent State will be a benefit of oil wealth, which provides for 98 per cent of its budget of $ 2 billion. Controls of now of southern Sudan to about 75 per cent of the Sudan of 490,000 barrels of oil daily production, pumped mainly by China National Petroleum Corp., Petroliam Nasional Bhd the Malaysia, and oil & gas Corp.Almost the India the size of the State of Texas with 100 miles of paved, roads South Sudan's oil-rich has a 85% adult illiteracy rate, and half of its 8 million people live on less than $1 per jourSelon the Organization of the United Nations. "" All indicators of human well-being put us to the bottom of humanity, "Kiir said in front of an audience which included the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, 30 African heads of State and former US Secretary of State Colin Powell.While South Sudan has suffered during the war, he must repair relations with the North, he said. "We have been bombarded, mutilated, reduced to slavery, treated worse that a refugee in our own country, but we have to forgive, but that we will not forget,"he says.Last BitternessSudanese President Omar el-Bashir, whose Government fought in more 15 contain the rebellion in the South, called the two nations "overcome the bitterness of the past" and build a "positive and special neighbourly relations."The US President Barack Obama, in a statement from the White House, said he was "proud" to recognize Southern Sudan, calling for independence "recalled that after the darkness of war, the light of a new dawn is possible."Eclipsing celebrations increase anti-Government in border militia raids and tension along its border with the country of al-Bashir, responsible for South accuse of supporting the rebels in the South - Sudan .the United Nations Security Council voted 15 - le 15-0 0 June 8 to send 7,000 soldiers and 900 police officers in southern Sudan to ensure the safety of the new nation.Year of WorsensThis of the violence was the most violent in South Sudan since the end of the civil war in 2005, with 2.368 civilians die in rebel attacks and ethnic violence, including cattle raids, compared with 940 last year, according to the UN. Nine militia groups operate mainly on the border with the near northern oil fields.Kiir offered an amnesty for rebels who lay down their arms. "" They say that our conception of freedom and democracy is flawed, ", he said. "It is to us to prove their bad."After months of negotiations, a final settlement of the North-South on how to share oil revenues has yet to be resolved. The two parties have agreed in principle that South will pay the North for the use of pipelines and facilities at Port Sudan on the Red Sea to export its crude. Since the end of the civil war, the North and the South have divided the gains from the production in the oil fields of the Sud.Les military tensions with the North have strengthened in recent weeks. Clashes in the northern border of Kordofan State southern between the army and troops loyal to the army of the South Sudan Sudan have forced more than 73 000 people to flee their homes since June 5, according to the army of the border Nations.Disputed United AreasSudan seized the main town in the disputed border region of Abyei, May 21, driving more 100 000 members of the Ngok Dinka ethnic group, who consider those South of their home. Negotiators from North and South agreed month last to withdraw their forces and to allow the Ethiopian peacekeepers to deploy in the area.The Security Council voted on June 27 to deploy 4 200 Ethiopian soldiers in Abyei.Kiir said that southern Sudan would help restore peace in the border areas. "When you cry, we cry when bleed you, we also have bleed," he said. "" " I promise you today that we will find peace for all. "- Editors: Karl Maier, Willy Morris
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