America Blocks Aid's To Pakistan As Says Didn't taken Sufficient Actions Against Terror

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America Blocks Aid's To Pakistan As Says Didn't taken Sufficient Actions Against Terror Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis has decided that the Pentagon will not give Pakistan the remainder of a key U.S. military reimbursement fund allotted to the country for 2016, a move that could signal a burgeoning hard line approach by the Trump administration toward Islamabad. 

The Pentagon announced the move to withhold $50 million in "coalition support funds" in a statement Friday, saying it had determined Pakistan had not taken "sufficient action" against the Haqqani network, the Taliban offshoot responsible for numerous attacks on civilians and military targets in neighboring Afghanistan. 

 The move comes less than a year after Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter decided to withhold $300 million from the same fund for the same reason: that Pakistan was not going after the Haqqani militants.

 For fiscal year 2016, Pakistan was allotted $900 million in coalition support funds, $550 million of which Islamabad has already received. 

The Pentagon said that $300 million, however, had already been withheld and redistributed, meaning that there are no more of the funds available to Pakistan from its 2016 allotment. 

The Coalition Support Fund is the main source of military assistance for Pakistan and is considered a reimbursement for Pakistan's military support for U.S. operations in the region. In the statement, Stump said the 2016 funds had to be "released or reprogrammed" before their expiration.

 "[The Coalition Support Fund] is just one component of the United States' broad and enduring partnership with Pakistan," Stump said. In this year's budget, Pakistan is authorized another $900 million, $400 million of which could also be withheld for similar reasons again. 

Pakistan has received more than $14 billion in coalition support funds since 2002, according to the Pentagon.

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