The US plans to sell 18 F-16s to Pakistan to boost its ageing fleet of some 30 jets of the same make that were acquired in the 1980s. Washington has also offered Islamabad an option to purchase a further 18 F-16s and upgrade its existing fleet.
Boucher said the administration believed the resolution’s provision “conditioning assistance to Pakistan” was not “productive”. “We think it’s counter-productive to the important goal of fostering more cooperation with Pakistan against a common enemy, against the Taliban, al-Qaeda and militant extremism.”
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