Unlike Saudi Arabia and several other countres in the region. Pakistan is not an oil exporter. capable of financing its defense needs while at the same time sustaining its economic development. Pakistan is Implementing needed economic reforms under a 1980 3year stabilization agreement with the IMF. but its economy is being buffeted by the additional security burdens and the continuing influx of refugees from Afghanistan. It is not sufficient simply to sell arms for cash to Pakistan. we must provide economic assistance and foreign military sales financing as an integral Part of our evolving relationship with Pakistan. which in turn is part of our efforts to shore up all of our friends in Southwest Asia. I do not want to get into the question of detailing the past. sometimes stormy. sometimes unsatisfactory relationships with Pakistan or some of the things that have happened in the past.
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