{"id":32366,"date":"2018-10-29T13:44:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T08:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=32366"},"modified":"2018-10-29T13:44:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T08:14:18","slug":"us-drastically-cut-aid-to-pakistan-in-the-obama-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/us-drastically-cut-aid-to-pakistan-in-the-obama-years\/","title":{"rendered":"US drastically cut aid to Pakistan in the Obama years\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/us-has-drastically-cut-aid-to-pakistan\/article22348122.ece\"><strong>US drastically cut aid to Pakistan in the Obama years<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s New Year tweet is indicative that his administration is not satisfied by Pakistan\u2019s response on terror. A month ago, U.S. Secretary of Defence James Mattis had told Pakistan during a visit that it \u201cmust redouble its efforts to confront militants and terrorists operating within the country\u201d, according to a Pentagon statement<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scaling down of aid<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There was significant scaling down of U.S. assistance to Pakistan in the later years of the Barack Obama administration. From $2.177 billion in 2014, it came down to $1.604 in 2015 and $1.118 billion in 2016. In 2017, it was $526 million<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conditional Coalition Support Funds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. has also made disbursement of Pentagon\u2019s Coalition Support Funds (CSF) conditional.<\/p>\n<p>CSF pertains to reimbursement to Pakistan for its logistical and operational support for U.S.-led military operations<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2015, $300 million of the CSF was tied to a certification requirement that Pakistan was taking adequate action against the Haqqani network. That component increased in the following years \u2014 in 2016 it was $350 million out of $900 million and, in 2017, it was $400 million out of $900 million<\/li>\n<li>The defence budget for 2018 reduced the CSF allocation to $700 million and tied half of it to action against the Haqqani Network<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US drastically cut aid to Pakistan in the Obama years\u00a0 Context U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s New Year tweet is indicative that his administration is not satisfied by Pakistan\u2019s response on terror. A month ago, U.S. Secretary of Defence James Mattis had told Pakistan during a visit that it \u201cmust redouble its efforts to confront militants&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/us-drastically-cut-aid-to-pakistan-in-the-obama-years\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US drastically cut aid to Pakistan in the Obama years\u00a0<\/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-32366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704878629},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32366","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=32366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}