Visit Indian Travel Sites
Goa,
Kerala,
Tamil Nadu,
Andhra Pradesh,
Delhi,
Rajasthan,
Uttar Pradesh,
Himachal Pradesh,
Assam,
Sikkim,
Madhya Pradesh,
Jammu & Kashmir
Karnataka
|
US Congress fears Pak could use arms transferred from Iraq against India | The US Congress has raised questions over the Pentagon's proposal to transfer military
equipments from Iraq to Pakistan, by questioning whether adequate safeguards existed
to ensure that these arms and ammunition do not end up being used by Pakistan
against India. The Congress questioned the 'transfer of articles no longer needed
in Iraq' and expressed apprehensions that Islamabad may divert the armaments towards
the Indian border. According to sources, the Pentagon has proposed to transfer
US military equipments from Iraq to Pakistan in order to help it counter the extremist
threat effectively and step up its operation against the Taliban other militant
groups based on its soil. The Pentagon is also considering to expand the programs
under which Washington acquires equipments for Pakistani security forces through
other countries or leases them U.S. equipment at nominal rates, The News reports.
Pakistan has long been saying that its forces require more sophisticated arms
to take on the extremists in the ground operations in South Waziristan and other
Taliban strongholds bordering Afghanistan. The Pakistan Army is also pushing the
Obama Administration to provide the drone technology if not the unmanned aircrafts,
so that it could target the militant hideouts itself.
|
|
|
|
|
|