the report said.
US gears up for limited relationship with Pakistan: report
WASHINGTON: US officers think the country’s romantic relationship with Pakistan has been significantly destroyed and a counterterrorism alliance can survive only in a minimal type,texans, The New York Instances noted late Sunday.
Citing unnamed US and Pakistani officials, the newspaper mentioned officials acknowledge this deterioration will complicate the potential to start assaults from Islamic extremists based mostly in Pakistan and transfer provides into Afghanistan.
US-Pakistani relations took a critical hit last month following a sequence of US air strikes killed 24 Pakistani troopers in close proximity to the border with Afghanistan.
A joint US-NATO investigation concluded that a disastrous spate of errors and botched communications led to the deaths. Pakistan has rejected the findings.
The United States will be pressured to prohibit drone strikes, limit the amount of its spies and troopers on the ground and invest a lot more to transportation materials through Pakistan to allied troops in Afghanistan, the report said.
United States help to Pakistan will also be decreased sharply, the paper noted.
We’ve closed the chapter on the post-9/eleven time period, The Instances quoted a senior US official as saying. Pakistan has informed us quite evidently that they are re-evaluating the whole relationship.
American officials say the romantic relationship will endure in some form,texans, but that the contours will not be clear until finally Pakistan completes its broad-ranging evaluation of the November incident in the coming weeks, the paper pointed out.