[New post] The Pakistani aid conundrum
 | The Pakistani aid conundrum |
Editor's Note: Isobel Coleman is the author of Paradise Beneath Her Feet and the blog Democracy in Development. This post comes from that blog. Coleman is a senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
By Isobel Coleman
Late last week reports emerged that the United States was canceling or suspending some $800 million in aid to the Pakistani military. Relations between the two countries have been extremely tense since the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May. But this is only the latest rough patch in a partnership long dogged by concerns that Pakistan's military and intelligence establishment is playing a double game — accepting American support and promising to fight terrorism while maintaining links with groups responsible for attacks. Clearly the Obama administration is trying to send Pakistan's generals a message by withholding some of the money and equipment they want.
The case for reducing U.S. aid to the Pakistani security establishment is compelling, and it keeps becoming more so. Pakistan's main intelligence agency, the ISI, has been linked to the horrific killing in late May of Syed Saleem Shahzad, a journalist who reported on Islamic militancy. Read more of this post
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