By the time the stuff hits the fan in Pakistan, the military part of the Kerry Lugar Bill would have become law. The Bharati lobby had first tried to block any aid to Pakistan. Failing this, they tried to add Symington, and Pressler types of poison pill amendments. None of this worked, but they were able to put in conditions for the use of US equipment in Pakistani hands. The same type of restrictions placed an arms embargo on Pakistan when Islamabad used the F-104s and F-86 Sabres on Bharat. The US arms embargo crippled the Pakistani Army because most of the Pakistani equipment was American. This has changed dramatically. Pakistan has diversified arms now and many of the planes manufactured locally.
WASHINGTON: The US Senate is poised to a send a defence bill to President Barack Obama late on Thursday, which includes tough new conditions on American military aid to Pakistan.
The president is likely to sign the fiscal 2010 defence authorisation bill despite objections to its funding for a controversial backup jet fighter engine.
‘We do not expect the bill to be vetoed,’ said Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin. Earlier on Thursday, the Senate voted 64-35 to invoke cloture and limit debate on the conference agreement accompanying the bill.
This paves the way for a vote by day’s end to send the bill to Mr Obama. The House of Representatives had adopted the agreement on Oct 8.
Earlier this month, the House and Senate Armed Services Committees reached agreement on the conference report to the proposed law.
The proposed restrictions on Pakistan are buried in the $680.2 billion defence authorisation bill, including conditions on the spending of billions of dollars for training, equipping and reimbursing the Pakistani military.
There are also new requirements for end-use monitoring of weapons and mandates that the US administration certifies that the aid serves America’s interests.
Certifications required
Besides the required monitoring of how Pakistan uses defence goods and services that it receives from the United States, the defence authorisation conference report would mandate a number of certifications from the administration and, indirectly, from Pakistan.
One provision affects the $1.6 billion the bill would authorise for a Coalition Support Fund to reimburse Pakistan for logistical and military support for counterinsurgency operations.
Pakistan insists that a reimbursement cannot be equated with aid and therefore it cannot accept restrictions on the money, which is repayment for what it has already spent.
The US Government Accountability Office, however, has objected to previous repayments, arguing that Washington had little insight into or oversight of such funds.
The Coalition Support Fund has accounted for 70 per cent of the $12.3 billion in American military and non-military aid to Pakistan since Sept 11, 2001.
The defence authorisation measure would require that, before any more such money is spent, the secretaries of defence and state must certify that doing so is in the US national interest and will not adversely affect the region’s balance of power.
Another certification is required before the Pentagon can begin spending any of the $700 million it might receive from requested State Department appropriations in the coming fiscal year for the Pakistan Counter-insurgency Capability Fund.
That programme, begun in fiscal 2009, is meant to train and equip the Pakistani military to fight insurgents and terrorists on its territory.
US military aid: text of clauses relevant to Pakistan
The following is the text of clauses relevant to Pakistan in the US defence bill which includes tough conditions on military aid:
End-use restrictions: The Secretary of Defence shall establish and carry out a programme to provide for the registration and end-use monitoring of defence articles and defence services transferred to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The Secretary of Defence may exempt a defence article or defence service from the registration and end-use monitoring requirements if he deems it in the US interest to do so.
Assessment of US-Pakistan military relations:
(a) Assessment: The Secretary of Defence, in consultation with the Secretary of State, shall conduct an assessment of possible alternatives to reimbursements to Pakistan for logistical, military, or other support provided by Pakistan to or in connection with United States military operations, which could encourage the Pakistani military to undertake counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations and achieve the goals and objectives for long-term United States-Pakistan military relations and cooperation.
(b) Report- Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defence shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the assessment required under subsection (a).
Security and stability in Pakistan:
(a) Assessments Require- Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and every 180 days thereafter, the US president shall conduct an assessment, which shall be not more than 30 days in duration, of the progress toward long-term security and stability in Pakistan.
(b) The president should assess:
(1) The effectiveness of efforts
(A) to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat Al Qaeda, its affiliated networks, and other extremist forces in Pakistan;
(B) to eliminate the safe havens for such forces in Pakistan; and
(C) to prevent the return of such forces to Pakistan or Afghanistan; and
(2) the effectiveness of United States security assistance to Pakistan to achieve the strategic goal described in paragraph (1).
(c) Requirement to Develop Goals and Objectives and Timelines: For any area assessed under subsection (b), the US president, in consultation with the government of Pakistan and the governments of other countries, shall establish goals and objectives and timelines for meeting such goals and objectives.
(d) Requirement to Develop Metrics: The US president shall develop metrics that allow for the accurate and thorough assessment of progress toward each goal and objective and along each timeline required.
(e) Report Required:
(1) In General: Not later than 30 days after the completion of each assessment required under subsection (a), the US president shall transmit to Congress a report on the assessment.
(2) Elements: The report required should include, at a minimum, the following elements:
(B) A description of the goals and objectives and timelines for meeting such goals and objectives required under subsection (c).
(C) A description of the metrics required (d) and how such metrics were used to assess progress in each area required to be assessed under subsection (b).
(3) Form: The report required shall be transmitted in unclassified form, but may contain a classified annex if necessary.
(f) Sunset: The requirement to conduct assessments shall not apply beginning on the date that is 5 years after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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ISLAMABAD – A large number of students from different universities of the Capital, on Wednesday, took to the streets against the brutal killing of their colleagues in terrorists’ twin blasts on International Islamic University, Islamabad (IIUI) on Tuesday.
They were of the view that the main purpose to target the IIUI was to isolate Pakistan internationally, as more then 56 countries’ students are enrolled in the IIUI, adding that their majority was enrolled in the Faculty of Sharia and Law which was targeted, thereby exposing the intentions of the culprits.
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Hassan Javed, a student at Sharia and Law Faculty at IIUI, said that misleading concept of Interior Minister Rehman Malik to announce ‘Special Student Task Force’ to counter the terrorists turned the peaceful environment of the campuses into a battlefield. He lamented that in the presence of well-equipped law enforcement agencies there was no need to involve the students into security related issues. “Furious response of the IIUI students at the arrival of Rehman Malik showed the prevailing hatred against the rulers,” he said.
Asim, a student at IIUI, opined that there was a foreign hand behind the recent terrorist attacks in Iran to create a rift between Iran and Pakistan. He claimed that more than 20 students of the University were martyred in the twin blasts. He demanded of the government to separate itself from the US and its so called war against terrorism.
The National Students Federation (NSF) held a protest demonstration at National Press Club Islamabad to condemn the attack on Islamic International University and to express solidarity with the affected students. NSF members were holding placards and chanted slogans against the terrorists.
Nazish Zahoor said that under no circumstances could the killing of students at IIUI be justified. He said that only a long-term change in the policies of the state would be able to counter the trend of young people being drawn to extremist ideologies.
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