US military trainers may return to Pakistan under new deal

[Devil Soul]

US military trainers may return to Pakistan under new deal
Submitted 3 hrs 11 mins ago
Pakistan and the US are negotiating a fresh arrangement for allowing American military trainers back into the country, a development that may break a months-old deadlock in the relationship between the two ostensible allies. The new agreement, if finalised, will allow a smaller number of American military trainers in Pakistan compared to their pre-May 2 strength.
While neither side has revealed publicly how many US troops were in Pakistan, some reports have suggested that the number was around 200. Pakistan kicked out 90% of the US military personnel stationed in the country as a reaction to the May 2 Abbottabad raid by US forces. The decision, along with the fact that Osama bin Laden was found living in Pakistan, has caused a further strain in the ties between the key allies in the war on terror. In a tit for tat move, the US withheld $800mn assistance in military, much of which, it said was meant to fund the presence of the US trainers in Pakistan.
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[mitth]

Pakistan And US are Associational and good neighbor and friend..........

 

[lem34]

I hope its not true. But if it is I hope its on our terms.

 

[muse]

So many conflicting news reports - More Us personnel leaving Pakistan and then more coming into Pakistan - What gives? The authorites, as VCheng had earlier suggested have made their deal with the US and the US has pretty much got what it wanted because it controls the flow of Dollars to the Pakistan army - and that army, knowing the response of the population, at once again, being betrayed by the army that says and does different things in private for the US, while promoting anti-Americanism in society in public, will find more reason to object to the army leaderships duplicity.

 

[lem34]

So many conflicting news reports - More Us personnel leaving Pakistan and then more coming into Pakistan - What gives? The authorites, as VCheng had earlier suggested have made their deal with the US and the US has pretty much got what it wanted because it controls the flow of Dollars to the Pakistan army - and that army, knowing the response of the population, at once again, being betrayed by the army that says and does different things in private for the US, while promoting anti-Americanism in society in public, will find more reason to object to the army leaderships duplicity.

Muse you may be right but i hope you are wrong

 

[Tshering22]

I hope its not true. But if it is I hope its on our terms.

They're trainers for heaven's sake. Not some bunch of James Bonds that are coming to seize your military. What was the point of kicking out trainers behind Raymond Davis' case?

 

[lem34]

They're trainers for heaven's sake. Not some bunch of James Bonds that are coming to seize your military. What was the point of kicking out trainers behind Raymond Davis' case?

Just cos they call them trainers does not mean thats their job

 

[Respect4Respect01]

They're trainers for heaven's sake. Not some bunch of James Bonds that are coming to seize your military. What was the point of kicking out trainers behind Raymond Davis' case?

they are more raymond davis's for heaven's sake.

 

[muse]

Muse you may be right but i hope you are wrong

I too hope I am wrong but we all know better, we have been lied to by this uniformed bunch so many times that it makes us cautious.

 

[azfar]

They're trainers for heaven's sake. Not some bunch of James Bonds that are coming to seize your military. What was the point of kicking out trainers behind Raymond Davis' case?

because for god's sake raymond davis was also a diplomat.

 

[SMC]

They're trainers for heaven's sake. Not some bunch of James Bonds that are coming to seize your military. What was the point of kicking out trainers behind Raymond Davis' case?

Why is US so desperate to get the trainers back to Pakistan, if they're just trainers?

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

They're trainers for heaven's sake. Not some bunch of James Bonds that are coming to seize your military. What was the point of kicking out trainers behind Raymond Davis' case?

So why is the US so adamant on having them return?

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

250 US nationals have left Pakistan since bin Laden operation


SHAIQ HUSSAIN 3 hours ago | Comments (0)

ISLAMABAD - Around 250 US nationals including military trainers, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operatives and defense contractors have left Pakistan since the eruption of a serious diplomatic row between Islamabad and Washington in the wake of the May 2 military raid by American special forces in Abbottabad to kill al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.

Pakistan had asked the Obama administration to call back well over 120 military trainers, dozens of CIA operatives and defense contractors after the covert military action in Abbottabad.

As a result of that demand, well over 250 Americans have left Pakistan. “Pakistan has even asked US to slash the staff that deals with the media at its embassy and bring it down to the minimum required number,” said a diplomatic source here on Sunday, requesting anonymity. Some media outlets, a couple of days ago, ran a story that Islamabad had demanded the US once again to withdraw over 250 of its nationals from Pakistani soil. However, that report was denied by Pakistani officials, including the foreign office spokeswoman.

“Yes that news was not correct as over 250 people have already left Pakistan and there has been no fresh demand by Pakistan from US in this regard,” the source said.

He said the basic motive of Pakistani authorities in asking the Americans to leave was to target the ‘dubious characters’ linked to CIA and carrying out their activities on their own without the knowledge of the Pakistani government.

He said bin Laden’s killing led to the disclosure that CIA was running a large network of its own in Pakistan to hunt down the al Qaeda chief and other terrorists linked with him and the Taliban.

“If someone from the US is here for a genuine purpose, Pakistani authorities don’t have any problem with him or her but if he or she is here for spying in the garb of something else, then it’s definitely a serious issue,” he said.

A Pakistani security official confirmed that more than 200 Americans have been sent back to the US after the bin Laden episode. He said that negotiations were still going on between Islamabad and Washington for the redeployment of a few American military trainers to impart training to Pakistani security forces.

He said those talks were being held on a positive note and if they proved to be conclusive, only a few US trainers linked with specific projects, which were in the pipeline before the suspension of around $800 million worth of military assistance to Islamabad, would be allowed to come back to Pakistan and finish their job.

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[unicorn]

And what about all those locals that they have recruited here in Pakistan. Now we all know that way before the OBL incident USA was conducting drones operation inside Pakistani lands based on their intelligence on the ground not the Pakistanis, so question here is why didn't the Pakistani authorities realize than that they have made a big network of locals plus Afghans people here. Why they realize after such a long time?

My personal opinion is that this show of late realization is actually only to make people fools. And even if lets say we assume that they didn't know about American intelligence activities before OBL, than doesn't it consider to be the biggest and fash mistake on ISI behalf.

In short I don't see any plans from the Pakistani authorities to deal with this problem.Their pathethic zabani ehtijaj about the militants coming from Afghan side explains a lot.

 

[Imran Khan]

no no no no no no for hell sake no .why the hell USA want to train us just why? if we remain untrained its their lose or ours? its trap and we again and again bit the dust .wait new wing of CIA is coming to mess here .