US Central Command (Centcom) announced that the United States will provide military assistance to Pakistan, hit by historic floods. US Central Command spokesman Colonel Joe Buccino said: “The US Central Command is sending an assessment mission to Islamabad to determine the support that the US Department of Defense can provide to the Development Assistance Agency (USAID) as part of US assistance to Pakistan.
He added that the decision came after a telephone conversation on Thursday between Central Command Commander General Eric Kurella and Pakistan Army Chief of Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa, who noted that the United States is the main supplier of weapons. into the Pakistani army, but relations between the two countries have never been easy.
The assassination of Osama bin Laden in 2011 in northern Pakistan, where he was hiding near a military camp, strained relations between Islamabad and Washington, but since he left Afghanistan, the US has sought to strengthen relations between them.
Monsoon rains have inundated a third of Pakistan’s territory and have killed more than a thousand people since June, triggering severe flooding that washed away areas of vital crops and damaged or destroyed more than a million homes. Authorities attributed the disaster to climate change, which is increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events.
