{"id":27971,"date":"2018-10-23T17:22:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T11:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=27971"},"modified":"2018-10-23T17:22:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T11:52:41","slug":"u-s-cuts-training-for-pak-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/u-s-cuts-training-for-pak-military\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. cuts training for Pak. military"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. cuts training for Pak. military<\/a><\/p>\n

News:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. US has cut Pakistani officers from coveted International Military Education and Training programme (IMET)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Important facts<\/strong><\/p>\n

    2. Coveted training and educational programmes that have been a hallmark of bilateral military relations for more than a decade<\/p>\n

    3. Pakistan has also been removed from programmes at the U.S. Naval War College, Naval Staff College and courses including cyber security studies.<\/p>\n

    4. Earlier this year US suspended security assistance to Pakistan to compel it to crack down on Islamic militants.<\/p>\n

    5. The Pentagon and the Pakistani military did not comment directly on the decision, but officials from both countries privately criticised the move<\/p>\n

    6. U.S. officialssaid they were worried the decision could undermine a key trust-building measure.<\/p>\n

    7. Pakistani officials warned it could push their military to further look to China or Russia for leadership training.<\/p>\n

    8. The U.S. military has traditionally sought to shield such educational programmes from political tensions, arguing that the ties built by bringing foreign military officers to the U.S pay long-term dividends.<\/p>\n

    9. For example, the U.S. Army’s War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, which would normally have two Pakistani military officers per year, boasts graduates including Lieutenant General Naveed Mukhtar, the current director-general of Pakistan\u2019 powerful spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    U.S. cuts training for Pak. military News: US has cut Pakistani officers from coveted International Military Education and Training programme (IMET) Important facts 2. Coveted training and educational programmes that have been a hallmark of bilateral military relations for more than a decade 3. Pakistan has also been removed from programmes at the U.S. Naval… Continue reading U.S. cuts training for Pak. military<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704811584},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}