Pakistan is one of U.S. President Barack Obama’s foreign policy disappointments, former White House and Pentagon staffer Derek Chollet has said. Mr. Chollet, at present with the German Marshall Fund of the U.S, was the Principal Deputy Director of the U.S. Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff before his current stint. Due to this, he said, the U.S. spent tremendous amount of resources to try and help Pakistan and influence its behaviour. According to data from the Pentagon, the superpower paid about $14 billion to Pakistan since 2002. However, the latest tranche of $300 million was withheld last month as Defence Secretary Ashton Carter has not certified to the Congress that Pakistan has done enough.

Source: The Hindu September 17, 2016 22:39 UTC