[Pak Daily Times]  Pakistain expressed disappointment on Tuesday over US plans to freeze $700 million in aid pending assurances of more cooperation from Islamabad in fighting thugs, but said it could cope without the cash. "It is most unfortunate and untimely," the chairman of Pakistain's Senate committee on foreign affairs, Salim Saifullah Khan, said. The bill comes with the fragile American-Pak alliance at an all time low since November 26 Arclight airstrikes. The measure would freeze roughly $700 million in aid to Pakistain pending assurances that Islamabad has taken steps to thwart faceless myrmidons who use improvised bombs against US-led forces in Afghanistan. "I think we will survive without aid, but it is most unfortunate to see these things after 31 years of sacrifices by Pakistain," said Khan. |