Politics

Obama Agrees to Supply Pakistan With Jets and Bomb Kits for Raids On Tribal Regions

Times Online
The United States is to deliver a thousand laser-guided bomb kits to Pakistan this month. The deal, which also includes the delivery of 18 new F16 fighter jets and a dozen surveillance drones later in the year, is an apparent pay-off for greater co-operation against al-Qaeda and the Taleban. US military officials said that the sales, mostly funded by US grants, were intended to enhance the Pakistani military’s capacity to strike militant targets accurately and with minimum civilian casualties in the tribal areas near the Afghan border. The Obama Administration appears to have decided to put Pakistan at the centre of its efforts to stabilise the region, while mollifying India by agreeing to also sell it billions of dollars’ worth of weaponry.
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Posted by Editor at March 5, 2010 01:33 AM