Washington (ANTARA News / AFP) - The United States Thursday reassured Pakistan that they will continue to send civilian aid to the country after they suspend 800 million dollars in military aid in the effort to ask for cooperation greater security.
Thomas Nides, deputy U.S. secretary of state for business and resource management, delivered the message in a telephone conversation with Pakistani Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, said the U.S. State Department.
"We suffered a setback on the military side, but our civilian aid remains suspended," State Department spokesman Mark Toner said, describing a phone conversation between the two officials.
"We continue to work productively on the civilian side. The aid continued to flow," said Toner told reporters.
The U.S. has suspended military aid - about a third of its annual defense package worth 2.7 billion dollars - more or less two months after the operation that killed the main suspect of terror mastermind Osama bin Laden in Pakistan near important military academy.
After the attack, the U.S. pledged to maintain a strong relationship with Pakistan. But the frustration of the U.S. has increased, including due to Islamabad's decision to expel as many as 200 U.S. personnel who planned to train Pakistani forces.
U.S. partnership to begin a war with Pakistan after 11 September 2001 attacks in America, when Islamabad's support to release the hardline Taliban regime in neighboring Afghanistan.
The government of President Barack Obama, who took office in 2009 has promised to shift the relationship of the only military cooperation and instead to focus on building civil institutions, schools and infrastructure are weak Pakistan.
Toner stated that the U.S. has given Pakistan around $ 2 billion in civilian aid from the bill of congress approved in 2009. Of the aid, 550 million dollars in emergency aid for the flood is huge in Pakistan last year.