US and Pakistan F16 deal and it's impact
American upgrades to the Pakistan Air Force’s F-16 programme were at the centre of controversy after External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar criticised the US decision to provide a $450 million military sustainment package to India’s northwestern rival. Mint breaks down Pakistan’s F-16 program and India’s concerns.
According to the September 7 Defense Security Co-operation Agency press release, included in the $450 million package — the proposed contractor for which is Lockheed Martin — are technical and logistics services for follow-on support of Pakistan’s F-16 fleet. There is participation in several technical coordination groups, aircraft and engine hardware and software modifications and support, equipment support, manuals, precision measurement, and a range of related elements of aircraft maintenance.
In a Defense Security Co-operation Agency press release, dated 7 September, the $450 million package, whose contractor is Lockheed Martin, was said to be a “technical and logistical service for follow-on support of Pakistan’s F-16 fleet.
As the Biden administration last week approved the sale of F-16- related equipment for an estimated cost of USD 450 million to Pakistan, India registered a strong protest with the US last week. The protest is learnt to have come in the form of a sharp rebuke delivered to US assistant secretary of state for south and central Asian affairs Donald Lu and focused on both substance and timing of the decision, TOI reported.
The package for Pakistan, which reversed the Trump administration's decision in 2018 to suspend such assistance to Islamabad, was announced while India was hosting top US officials, including Lu himself, for a US-India 2+2 Intersessional Meeting and Maritime Security Dialogue. Lu also led the US delegation in a Quad senior officials' meeting. The Indian government doesn't believe that this development will have any impact on the relationship, but it is reportedly upset that the US didn' ..
Blowback over Pakistan F-16 deal highlights limits of India’s closer ties with US
he India-US relationship has transformed from estrangement to one of engagement and is now touted as one between partners and friends, but all is not well New Delhi’s anger over Washington’s upgrades for Pakistan’s jet fighters is the latest example of US foreign policy clashing with India’s core security interests.
India and the United States moved swiftly in tandem this week to engage in a damage-control exercise to smooth a jolted bilateral relationship. New Delhi was visibly upset over Washington’s decision to extend support to Pakistan by way of up grading its US-supplied F-16 fighter aircraft.
Affects on india
Cold war legacies and trade sanctions
• CENTO and SEATO
• Alliance with United States
• Trust deficit issues
• Border engagement and skirmishes
• 2009: U.S. military and economic aid
• 2010: Coalition partnership issues
• 2011: American accusations and attacks in Pakistan
• Collapse of alliance and death of Osama bin Laden
• 2012–13: American sentiment against Pakistan
• 2014 and 2015: Rapprochemen
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