Washington, July 19
America’s security assistance to Pakistan will remain suspended pending “decisive and irreversible” action by the country against externally-focused militant groups like the LeT and Al Qaeda operating from its territory, a US congressional report has said ahead of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s visit here.
At the direction of President Donald Trump, the US had suspended all its security assistance to Pakistan in January 2018. The US President has repeatedly singling out Islamabad for failing to rein in extremists and being an unfaithful partner in the fight against militants.
Pakistan is hopeful that Khan’s trip to the White House later this month would help repair its acrimonious relationship with the US. Khan’s visit is the first high-level trip by a Pakistani prime minster to the White House during the Trump administration.
“Pakistan is a haven for numerous Islamist extremist and terrorist groups, and successive Pakistani governments are widely believed to have tolerated and even supported some of these as proxies in Islamabad’s historical conflicts with its neighbours,” the independent Congressional Research Service said in a latest report on Pakistan. — PTI
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