WASHINGTON: US Defence Secretary Lloyd. Austin said on Wednesday that his addresses with visiting Pakistan Army Chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa concentrated on the long-standing cooperation between the two defence establishments and on areas of collective interest.
Italicizing the significance of this cooperation in a tweet he posted on his functionary point, Secretary Austin noted that this time marks the 75th anniversary of relations between the United States and Pakistan.
In a separate statement, his office said that on Oct 4, Secretary Austin hosted Gen Bajwa at the Pentagon during the 75th anniversary of relations between the United States and Pakistan.
“This long-standing cooperation continues moment with conversations concentrated on openings to address crucial collective defence interests,” the Pentagon said.
The service’s media department, ISPR, also stressed this point in its statement, saying that the two leaders also bandied the “indigenous security situation and bilateral cooperation in colourful fields”.
Fresh points in the ISPR statement included the need for uninterrupted backing from Pakistan’s global mate for the recuperation of flood tide victims in Pakistan and enhancing trade and profitable ties between the two abettors.
“Both sides had confluence on major transnational issues, including Afghanistan,” and also on the “need for cooperation to avoid philanthropic extremity and perfecting peace and stability in the region”.
Politic sources in Washington, still, say that the addresses with US officers concentrated on renewing the strong defence cooperation that formerly was between the two abettors.
Politic spectators view this trouble against the background of a recent advertisement by the US State Department that it has asked the Congress to release $450 million for the sustenance of Pakistan’s line of F-16 aircraft.
After the advertisement, the US rejected India’s review that those aeroplanes would be used against New Delhi.
”Pakistan’s programme bolsters its capability to deal with terrorist pitfalls expiring from Pakistan or from the region. It’s in no one’s interests that those pitfalls be suitable to go forward with immunity,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said last week.
Indian Foreign Minister Jaishankar was also present at the event where Mr Blinken defended Pakistan’s right to maintain those aeroplanes , but he ignored the reflections, although he’d before said that similar statements were “not chaffing anybody”.
