Can the Pakistan Army move away from its historic dependence on the United States? Opinion | Kamal Alam
, the Pakistan Army now has a global diplomatic footprint that is turning into a multi-faceted force that includes defence diplomacy, conflict resolution and peacekeeping, international education and last by no means lest – military sales and defence cooperation.
It is a sharp contrast to September 11, 2001 – when under pressure and isolation threats, the then Chief of Army Staff , Generalunder American pressure.
The Pakistan Air Force and the two dozen F-16s were hardly in a serviceable condition - its force was almost wholly just trained to fight on its eastern border rather than a counter-insurgency on the Afghan border as the Americans were demanding., even the ones that Pakistan paid for were not delivered – and only after Pakistan agreed to take part in the global war on terror did F16s start arriving after two decades.
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