Earlier this year, the Trump administration suspended most security assistance, including Coalition Support Funds (CSF), to Pakistan and led the charge to place the country on an international terrorism-financing watchlist, beginning next month.
Why it matters: The ineffectiveness of U.S. sanctions after Pakistan’s 1998 nuclear tests — coupled with China’s emergence as Pakistan’s financial benefactor — suggests coercive measures are unlikely to compel Pakistan’s army to cease backing militant networks that target U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
The piece was originally published in Axios. Read the full piece here.
Economic coercion unlikely to stop Pakistan from backing militants
By Travis Wheeler
In South Asia
Earlier this year, the Trump administration suspended most security assistance, including Coalition Support Funds (CSF), to Pakistan and led the charge to place the country on an international terrorism-financing watchlist, beginning next month.
Why it matters: The ineffectiveness of U.S. sanctions after Pakistan’s 1998 nuclear tests — coupled with China’s emergence as Pakistan’s financial benefactor — suggests coercive measures are unlikely to compel Pakistan’s army to cease backing militant networks that target U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
The piece was originally published in Axios. Read the full piece here.