Haqqani Seeks US Military Aid For PAk
Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 11:09 am
NEW YORK: Pakistan ambassador to the US has appealed for increased military assistance to tackle the insurgency, reported ARY OneWorld here.
“Pakistan can and will defeat the Taliban,” Ambassador Husain Haqqani wrote in an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. He called on the Obama administration to share military technology with Pakistan to help in the fight against terrorism.
Pakistan needs night vision equipment, radio jammers and a “larger, modernized fleet of helicopter gunships for ground support,” Haqqani said, adding the US has been reluctant to share the technology because of concerns it could be used against India.
“Such concerns are misplaced,” the ambassador wrote. “Pakistanis understand that the primary threat to our homeland today is not from our neighbor to the east but from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas on our border with Afghanistan.”
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