US on Pakistan

actions”, experts are turning to a paper written in 2017 that called upon Trump to get tough with Pakistan.

It was co-authored by former Pakistani ambassador to US Husain Haqqani and then thinktank member Lisa Curtis, who now heads the South Asia desk in the President’s National Security Council.

They had recommended a timeline-based sequence: Pakistan must imprison known terrorist leaders; shut down terrortraining camps and disrupt terror financing; stem infiltration of militants across the Line of Control (LoC) that divides Kashmir; end support to the Taliban and prevent its leaders from living and meeting in Pakistan; and curtail the export of arms, explosives and ammunition to the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Pakistan has received $33.92 billion in aid from the United States since 2002, the year after the US invaded neighbouring Afghanistan to oust the Taliban regime for refusing to give up Osama bin Laden – who masterminded the September 11 terrorist attacks – and other al Qaeda leaders.

These payments are a combination of economic and securityrelated assistance, including disbursements under the Coalition Support Fund that the US pays to member-countries of the international coalition force in Afghanistan. Pakistan accounted for the largest chunk of the amount — $14.57 billion — since 2002.