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US seeks 3.5 million from Congress for resuming military training in Pakistan
The US State Department is seeking funds from Congress to resume its military education and training facilities for Pakistan, says a document released on Tuesday.
The US State Department is seeking funds from Congress to resume its military education and training facilities for Pakistan, says a document released on Tuesday.
In its budget requests for the fiscal year 2021, the department sought a total of $104.9 million for its International Military Education and Training (IMET) programme. Out of these $104.9 million, the department is seeking $12.7 million for training military officers from the South and Central Asian region, which includes $3.5 million for resuming this facility for Pakistan. Although the request includes the entire South and Central Asian region, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Nepal are classified as “priority recipients”. The Trump administration approved the resumption of military education and training facilities for Pakistan in December 2019, saying that it was doing so to “improve bilateral cooperation on shared priorities”.
Meanwhile, Pakistan was in the process of selecting officers to send to the United States, according to a second US official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Pakistan’s suspension from the US government’s IMET last year shut down places that had been set aside for Pakistani officers.
Relations between the United States and Pakistan started to strain in 2011 when Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was tracked and killed in Abbottabad by US special forces without informing Islamabad.
