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F-16’s from US will only help Pak lose war against India ‘a little slower’: US officials | Even while the United States has offered huge military and non-military aid to Pakistan, including the much sought after F-16 combat jets, American officials believe that Washington is careful enough not to disturb the balance of power in South Asia. Pentagon
officials told The Los Angeles Times that the US is aware of its responsibilities,
and that providing the F-16’s to Pakistan does not mean that it gets an advantage
over India ’s might. “Another squadron of F-16s means they [ Pakistan ] will lose
the next war with India a little slower,” the newspaper quoted a Pentagon official,
as saying on conditions of anonymity. “They are not going to defeat India because
we gave them a squadron of F-16s. The military overmatch India enjoys is just
too great ,” he said. Washington is sensitive to the risk of dramatically increasing
one country’s military prowess vis-a-vis the other, which would potentially trigger
the very war the US wants to avoid, the newspaper said. US officials said America
’s growing ties would India would help both countries gel better and enhance support
for each other. “The technology and logistic agreements that go along with an
expanded defence trade will bind the US and India closer together,” they opined.
Similarly, they believed that providing modern weapons to Pakistan , even those
not specifically intended for anti-extremism operations, was crucial to the Obama
administration’s prime objective of toning down the massive distrust that prevails
between the two countries. |
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