Tie Pak funding sans terror |
An influential group of American business leaders, academics and policy experts has recommended that if Pakistan does not rein in terror, the U.S. stop funding Islamabad`s defense equipment purchases and reimbursing coalition support funds. An Independent Task Force of the Council on Foreign Relations said the U.S. should demand that Pakistan meet its obligations as a state to tackle terrorism emanating from its territory, in both India and Afghanistan, But "if Pakistan is not willing to rein in terror, Washington should be prepared, at minimum, to end U.S. taxpayer funding for defense equipment sales and reimbursement of coalition support funds. India is poised for power and prosperity if it can remain focused on its domestic transformation, and the risk of conflict with Pakistan threatens to drag India down. The task force included Ajay Banga, the Indian American MasterCard CEO and former chairman of the Indo-US Business Council; Ashley J. Tellis, a former U.S. government advisor on nuclear policy and now a senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Charles R. Kaye, the co-CEO of the investment company Warburg Pincus; Robert D. Blackwill, Stephen P. Cohen, Marshall M. Bouton, and Nicholas Burns.
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