As a part of reset with new Prime Minister Imran Khan, United States of America (USA) is considering to restore security funds of Pakistan. According to Washington Times, a battle is brewing inside the Trump administration over whether to reconsider the president's aggressive policy of withholding millions of dollars in sensitive security assistance to Pakistan on grounds that the South Asian nation is ready to reconsider its willingness to provide safe haven to terrorists nearly two decades after 9/11.
"Some of Mr Trump's top advisers argue that the time is ripe for Washington to begin restoring the military aid that the president cut from Islamabad at the start of the year," it stated. Earlier, US military said it has made a final decision to cancel $300 million in aid to Pakistan that had been suspended over Islamabad's perceived failure to take decisive action against militants, in a new blow to deteriorating ties.
The so-called Coalition Support Funds were part of a broader suspension in aid to Pakistan announced by President Donald Trump at the start of the year, when he accused Pakistan of rewarding past assistance with "nothing but lies & deceit."
But US officials had held out the possibility that Pakistan could win back that support if it changed its behaviour. US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, in particular, had an opportunity to authorize $300 million in CSF funds through this summer - if he saw concrete Pakistani actions to go after insurgents. Mattis chose not to, a US official told Reuters. "Due to a lack of Pakistani decisive actions in support of the South Asia Strategy the remaining $300 (million) was reprogrammed," Pentagon spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Kone Faulkner said.
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