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Mukund Padmanabhan / The Hindu
Of concern were claims relating to helicopter operations, radar maintenance and Joint Staff operations
In this February 2007 picture, U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Ryan Crocker (right) with Pakistan's Secretary of Defence Tariq Waseem Ghazi (centre) and Maj. Gen. Javed Aslam, commander of aviation assets within the Pakistani Army, at the handing over ceremony of eight U.S. made gunship Cobra helicopters, at the Qasim airbase in Rawalpindi. —
A number of cables sent between 2007 and 2009 to Washington by U.S. Ambassador Anne W. Patterson called for a thoroughgoing review of the Coalition Support Fund (CSF), set up by the U.S. after the 9/11 attack to reimburse its key allies the costs of providing assistance in the ‘global war on terror.' The cables suggested that money given for providing logistical, military and other support to U.S. military operations were “diverted” and that reimbursement claims made by Pakistan's military were “seriously inflated.”
So much for the partnership in 'War-on-Terror'; Ironically the US fund was utilized more to shelter, train, arm and export / smuggle terrorists, rather than in fighting them. Just 3.80% of the 6.60 Billion Dollars went into the actual war on terror!!
What a pity US, and this fact you knew since 2006/07 but you were a prisoner of your own percieved set of circumstances that you couldn't extricate from them even now!!!
Full story at,
http://www.hindu.com/2011/05/26/stories/2011052651631100.htm
U.S. worried Pakistan was misusing war funds
Mukund Padmanabhan / The Hindu
Of concern were claims relating to helicopter operations, radar maintenance and Joint Staff operations
In this February 2007 picture, U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Ryan Crocker (right) with Pakistan's Secretary of Defence Tariq Waseem Ghazi (centre) and Maj. Gen. Javed Aslam, commander of aviation assets within the Pakistani Army, at the handing over ceremony of eight U.S. made gunship Cobra helicopters, at the Qasim airbase in Rawalpindi. —
A number of cables sent between 2007 and 2009 to Washington by U.S. Ambassador Anne W. Patterson called for a thoroughgoing review of the Coalition Support Fund (CSF), set up by the U.S. after the 9/11 attack to reimburse its key allies the costs of providing assistance in the ‘global war on terror.' The cables suggested that money given for providing logistical, military and other support to U.S. military operations were “diverted” and that reimbursement claims made by Pakistan's military were “seriously inflated.”
So much for the partnership in 'War-on-Terror'; Ironically the US fund was utilized more to shelter, train, arm and export / smuggle terrorists, rather than in fighting them. Just 3.80% of the 6.60 Billion Dollars went into the actual war on terror!!
What a pity US, and this fact you knew since 2006/07 but you were a prisoner of your own percieved set of circumstances that you couldn't extricate from them even now!!!
Full story at,
http://www.hindu.com/2011/05/26/stories/2011052651631100.htm
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