Speculation Over: US offers Pakistan $2 billion in military aid: Clinton

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Obama ramping up CIA infiltration of Pakistan: report


The United States is trying to expand a secret CIA operation designed to eliminate radical Islamic militants' havens located in Pakistan near the Afghan border, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Citing unnamed senior officials, the newspaper said that in recent weeks the administration of President Barack Obama had asked Pakistan to allow additional Central Intelligence Agency officers and special operations military trainers to enter the country to intensify pressure on militants.

The requests have so far been rebuffed by Islamabad, which remains extremely reluctant to allow a larger US ground presence in Pakistan, the report said.

On Friday, the United States made a new bid to improve its uneasy war partnership with Pakistan by offering a two-billion-dollar arms package but warned it will not tolerate human rights abuses.

The five-year assistance plan satisfies a key request of Pakistan's influential military, which assists the US military in Afghanistan and was initially uneasy about a US shift to civilian assistance.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday that the US administration would ask Congress to approve two billion dollars in military aid from 2012 to 2016, replacing an earlier five-year package that expired.

The number of CIA personnel in Pakistan has grown substantially in recent years, The Journal said. But the exact number is highly classified.

According to the paper, there are currently about 900 US military personnel in Pakistan, 600 of which are providing flood relief and 150 of which are assigned to the training mission.

A senior Pakistani official said relations with the CIA remain strong but Islamabad continues to oppose a large increase in the number of American personnel on the ground, The Journal said.
 

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I fail to understand why the Indian governance is so dependent on the US.

A bit of warming up with China will do the trick! ;)
Warming up with China will be like digging our own pit.. Lets stand neutral and act wisely to counter US dual role.. But our politicians should be smart enough to act...

I'm just fed up with the political leadership we have in India over decades... They don't even tend to take bold decisions for nations good.. Why can't we have an IIT'ian or IIM ppl to play the lead role... :emot154:
 

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Warming up with China will be like digging our own pit.. Lets stand neutral and act wisely to counter US dual role.. But our politicians should be smart enough to act...

I'm just fed up with the political leadership we have in India over decades... They don't even tend to take bold decisions for nations good.. Why can't we have an IIT'ian or IIM ppl to play the lead role... :emot154:
PM Manmohan Singh and deputy chairman planning commission montek singh aluwalia would be more than a match to any of those IIM pass outs, dig into their best known alumni, and these two would be still come up trumps and then you have the rbi governors (past/present), some extremely bright chaps out there. india didnt come out of the global recession without being scratched just like that, some very brainy chaps worked it out perfectly for us else we would have been doing 4% growth and thanking our stars that we didnt hit the rock bottom like others.
 

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PM Manmohan Singh and deputy chairman planning commission montek singh aluwalia would be more than a match to any of those IIM pass outs, dig into their best known alumni, and these two would be still come up trumps and then you have the rbi governors (past/present), some extremely bright chaps out there. india didnt come out of the global recession without being scratched just like that, some very brainy chaps worked it out perfectly for us else we would have been doing 4% growth and thanking our stars that we didnt hit the rock bottom like others.
I agree with that. Our PM is so high profiled when compared with all the other PM's in the world.. But he's so tightly binded with congress leadership.. :emot158: Thats the sad part...

Mean to say that he cannot take single-handed decisions...
 

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