‘Not financial help’: US clarifies F-sixteen fighter jet support to Pakistan | Observe | World News

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The United States' '$450 million sustainment and relevant products programme' to assist Pakistan's F-sixteen fighter jets is aspect of a agreement amongst the two nations and does not symbolize 'monetary' support, Point out Office spokesperson Zed Tarar explained to news company ANI.

#WATCH | "It really is not financial support. These are thirty-calendar year-outdated plane & spare elements were being in the similar agreement... As for terrorism, US retains a shut eye on terrorism," suggests US Point out office spokesperson, Zed Tarar on US support to India's neighboring nations (*8*)

— ANI (@ANI) November 15, 2022

Talking on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Indonesia, Tarar claimed, "These are thirty-calendar year outdated plane... (provision of) spare elements were being in the similar agreement", and that United States 'keeps a shut eye on terrorism'. Tarar's remark arrives a working day following US president Joe Biden fulfilled Chinese chief Xi Jinping and pressured Washington's committment to its Indo-Pacific allies.

In September, the Biden administration accepted the F-sixteen offer for Pak (reversing an current ban to do so) following the Point out Office argued the cash would support enhance Islamabad meet up with terror-relevant threats by keeping its fighter jet fleet beat completely ready.

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"The United States govt has notified Congress of a proposed Overseas Navy Profits situation to maintain Pakistan Air Force's F-sixteen programme. Pakistan is an critical counterterrorism associate and, as aspect of longstanding plan, the United States offers existence-cycle routine maintenance and sustainment offers for US-origin platforms," the office claimed.

The offer, nevertheless, did not consist of the sale of any new abilities, weapons or munitions, and any assist was not anticipated to change the region's standard army stability.

The offer was billed as significant guidance to Pak subsequent a 2018 ban by previous US president Donald Trump that stopped all protection and protection support to a region not Islamabad selected as a 'partner' of the US in battling terrorism.

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