Washington, April 30: Having pumped billions of dollars in military assistance and rushing guerrilla warfare experts to train soldiers to shore up Pakistan’s capabilities to tackle militancy, influential US Congressmen and Pentagon officials feel that the nation is still closer to siege
“I don’t think the dynamic is as distinct as a nation at war or a nation at peace. It’s probably closer to a nation under threat or a nation under siege,” Lt Gen John Paxton, Director for Operations, Joint Chief of Staff, told the US Congress.
“It (Pakistan) is probably more a nation under threat, and they realise that they have to respond now, that they have both the opportunity and the obligation, and that failure to do so now — things could conceivably get worse and get worse quickly,” Paxton said in a hearing yesterday.
–PTI