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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 12/10/2017 1:00:15 AM
	Trump’s Jerusalem move a good thing… US pretense of ‘honest broker’ finally ends Finian Cunningham (born 1963) has written extensively on international affairs, with articles published in several languages. Originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, he is a Master’s graduate in Agricultural Chemistry and worked as a scientific editor for the Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, England, before pursuing a career in newspaper journalism. For over 20 years he worked as an editor and writer in major news media organizations, including The Mirror, Irish Times and Independent. Now a freelance journalist based in East Africa, his columns appear on RT, Sputnik, Strategic Culture Foundation and Press TV. Published time: 7 Dec, 2017 16:22 Protesters burn a picture of US President Donald Trump in Islamabad, Pakistan December 7, 2017 © Caren Firouz / Reuters US President Donald Trump makes one of the most protracted and painful world problems sound like he’s selling a condo between two parties. With cheesy easiness, he bluffs everybody gets a “great deal.” “We want an agreement that is a great deal for the Israelis and a great deal for the Palestinians.” Thus spoke Trump this week in announcing US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital city of Israel. The American property tycoon-turned-politician has shown again this week his vast ignorance of international relations. The trouble is that Trump’s rank foolishness risks inflaming the already combustible Middle East region and beyond. READ MORE: ‘Declaration of war’: Trump’s Jerusalem decision lights Middle East powder keg Arab nations, including some close American allies like Saudi Arabia and Egypt, are furious at what they see as a historic “betrayal.” For Arabs and Muslims, Jerusalem – or at least the eastern half of the “old city” – is regarded as the spiritual capital of a future Palestinian state. The ancient city is home to Muslims, Christians, and Jews, containing three unique religious sites. The eastern half of the city, which is legally Palestinian territory but under military occupation by Israel since the 1967 Six Day War, is where the ancient religious sites are located. Trump’s unilateral designation of Jerusalem as the Jewish capital is therefore as reckless as it is provocative. Read more US recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli capital would be 'major catastrophe' - Turkey In defiance of near-unanimous opposition from around the world, President Trump went ahead this week to declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel. The announcement violates international law which stipulates that the city is a contested matter to be resolved through peace negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. While Trump claims the US is still supportive of peace talks for a “lasting settlement” what his declaration this week does, in effect, is settle the seven-decade-old dispute on the side of Israel. “We are not taking a position on any final status issues, including the specific boundaries of the Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem, or the resolution of contested borders. Those questions are up to the parties involved,” said the president. But that’s contradicted by Washington now recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Nevertheless, if the political tinderbox region does not explode with violence over Trump’s latest declaration, one good thing to come from this debacle is this: at long last, the so-called “peace process” can be seen for what it is – a charade, in which Washington has posed as an “honest broker” overseeing the relentless suppression of Palestinian rights. “My announcement today marks the beginning of a new approach to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians,” intoned the American president. Note how Trump refers to the conflict between “Israel and the Palestinians.” One of the parties is a state – “Israel” – while the other party is made to sound like a group of people – “the Palestinians” – who must somehow be accommodated around the priorities of the former. Trump’s sonorous claim of “a new approach” is nothing but the same old path that American administrations have trodden for the past seven decades since 1948, when the Israeli state was established by acts of violence against Palestinians – Arabs, Jews, Muslims, Christians, living in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine. That path has been one of pandering to the aggressive expansion of the Israeli state – in spite of numerous United Nations resolutions condemning the annexation of Palestinian territory. https://www.facebook.com/RTnews/videos/10156241479479411/ For the past 25 years, since the signing of the Oslo Peace Accords between Israeli leader Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian counterpart Yasser Arafat, the US has served as self-appointed mediator. But the purported peace process has yielded little for the Palestinians toward their aspiration of a final sovereign state with East Jerusalem as their internationally recognized capital. The American-brokered peace process is all process and no peace. That process is one of continual annexation of Palestinian land through the building of Israeli settlements – in flagrant violation of international laws. Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu – who was the only world leader to welcome the Trump’s announcement this week – declares, along with his right-wing cabinet that Jerusalem is the “eternal Jewish capital.” It is obvious that for Netanyahu’s government there is no intention to engage in peace negotiations with Palestinians to reach a final status of two states. For Israeli hardliners, there is no peace process – despite lip service. There is only a process of relentless dispossession of Palestinians, which first began in 1948. American governments have long been complicit in this charade of dispossession regardless of pious pretensions of being an “honest broker.” Washington has bankrolled the state of Israel with $3 billion every year in military aid; has turned a blind eye to every violation under international law by Israel; and offers unwavering support for Israeli transgressions through the American veto at the United Nations Security Council. Trump’s is not offering a “new approach.” He is instead ramping up a very old policy of American government indulging Israeli intransigence. Why now? Part of Trump’s announcement this week from the White House – with a Christmas Tree background – was a gift. A gift to his evangelical Christian voter-base represented by Vice President Mike Pence looking on as Trump heralded the good tidings. For these supporters, Jerusalem is a Messianic issue. Another gift was to the right-wing pro-Israeli lobby in Washington, like billionaire Jewish businessman Sheldon Adelson, who reportedly donated $25 million to Trump’s presidential campaign. (So much for alleged Russian influence!) RT ✔@RT_com #Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu calls #Trump's#Jerusalem decision ‘historic’ http://on.rt.com/8tys 8:04 AM - Dec 7, 2017 136 Replies 118 Retweets 177 likes Twitter Ads info and privacy When Trump emphasized, “I am delivering,” he sounded like he was playing Santa Claus for his backers. But Trump’s foray this week is more like a bull in a china shop. His reckless ignorance will unleash huge repercussions of which he has very little awareness. The region is presently racked by war, with missiles flying across borders. Israeli aggression is already provoking Syria, Lebanon, and Iran. Trump’s fatuous gift-bearing could unleash a regional Intifada that tears apart America’s Israeli ally. There are also dangers for America’s Arab allies. Elite rulers of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, the UAE, and Bahrain, among others, are angry at Trump partly out of fear that the popular rage he is inciting across the region over his Jerusalem designation may end up sweeping these autocratic American clients from power. Paradoxically, Trump’s rash intervention this week is potentially a good thing. Inadvertently, it allows for a more accurate, realistic framework in which to bring about a peaceful settlement to the Arab-Israeli conflict. This conflict is at the root of the region’s never-ending tensions. The United States is no longer mistaken as a neutral mediator. Its role as a self-appointed honest broker is over. What’s needed now is an international, multilateral forum in which Palestinians are at last afforded real equality under international law. The Palestinian sovereign right for national status must be advocated in the context of an illegal occupation by Israeli forces. The full sanction of international law must be applied against Israeli transgressions going back to at least the 1967 war. American chicanery, as illustrated again this week by Trump, is part of the problem. It can never be part of the solution, and it is good that Washington’s pretense is now discarded. The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT (RT)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 12/10/2017 9:50:10 AM
	Scientists are slowly unlocking the secrets of the Earth’s mysterious hum By Avi Selk December 8 at 5:57 PM (NASA via AFP/Getty Images) “In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.” — Cormac McCarthy, “The Road” The world hums. It shivers endlessly. It's a low, ceaseless droning of unclear origin that rolls imperceptibly beneath our feet, impossible to hear with human ears. A researcher once described it to HuffPost as the sound of static on an old TV, slowed down 10,000 times. It's comforting to think of Earth as solid and immovable, but that's false. The world is vibrating, stretching and compressing. We're shaking right along with it. “The earth is ringing like a bell all the time,” said Spahr Webb, a seismologist at Columbia University. The hum is everywhere. Its ultralow frequencies have been recorded in Antarctica and Algeria, and — as announced this week by the American Geophysical Union — on the floor of the Indian Ocean. We still don't know what causes it. Some have theorized that it's the echo of colliding ocean waves, or the movements of the atmosphere, or vibrations born of sea and sky alike. But if we could hear this music more clearly, scientists around the world say, it could reveal deep secrets about the earth beneath us, or even teach us to map out alien planets. And the hum is getting clearer all the time. Earth vibrates at different frequencies and amplitudes, for different reasons, and not all those vibrations are the 'hum'. Earthquakes are like huge gong bangs. When an enormous quake hit Japan in 2011, Webb said, the globe kept ringing for a month afterward. People sitting on the other side of the world bounced up and down about a centimeter, though so slowly they didn't feel a thing. In 1998, a team of researchers analyzed data from a gravimeter in east Antarctica and realized that some of these vibrations never actually stop. “They discovered features in the data that suggested . . . continuous signals,” a University of California at Santa Barbara researcher recounted in 2001. These seismic waves ranged from 2 to 7 millihertz — thousands of times lower than the human hearing range — and continued endlessly, regardless of earthquakes. The phenomenon became popularly known as the “hum of the Earth.” Webb was one of many researchers who searched for the hum's cause in the 21st century. Some thought interactions between the atmosphere and solid ground caused the shaking, though he discounts the idea. Rather, Webb said, most recent research suggests the primary cause is ocean waves — “banging on the sea floor pretty much all the way around the Earth.” Sometimes waves sloshing in opposite directions intersect, sending vibrations deep down into Earth's crust. Sometimes a wave on a shallow coast somewhere ripples over the rough sea floor and adds its own frequencies to the hum. “I think our result is an important step in the transformation of mysterious noise into an understood signal,” an oceanographer with the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea told Live Science after publishing a 2015 paper detailing the ocean wave theories. Whatever the origin, the result is a harmony of ultralow frequencies that resonate almost identically all over the globe — and that's potentially invaluable to those who want to know what goes on beneath its surface, where the core spins and tectonic plates shift. Scientists already measure how fast earthquake waves travel through different regions of the underground to make detailed subterranean maps. [We thought New Zealand was an island nation. Scientists say it’s the tip of a ‘hidden continent.’] But earthquakes come randomly and briefly, like flashes of lightning on a dark night. A constant, uniform vibration could act like a floodlight into the underworld. Some researchers believe the hum extends all the way down to the Earth's core, and some have evenfantasized about using hums on other planets to map out alien geography. And yet we're still only beginning to understand our planet's hum. And scientists have been limited for years because they only knew how to measure it from land, while nearly three-quarters of the globe is underwater. That's where a team led by French researchers comes in, as described in a paper published last monthin the American Geophysical Union's journal. The scientists collected data from seismometer stations that had been placed in the Indian Ocean near Madagascar several years ago. These stations were meant to study volcanic hot spots — nothing to do with the hum — but the team worked out a method to clean the data of ocean currents, waves, glitches and other noise. They “were able to reduce the noise level to approximately the same level as a quiet land station,” the Geophysical Union said in an accompanying article. And when they were done, they were left with the first-ever underwater recording of the hum. It peaked between 2.9 and 4.5 millihertz, they said — a tighter range than the first hum researchers in the 1990s had recorded. It was also similar to measurements taken from a land-based station in Algeria. So — more evidence that the hum goes all the way around the world; and more hope that we may one day reveal all that goes on beneath it. (The Washington Post)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 12/10/2017 10:22:13 AM
	Thousands of mentally ill people are being unlawfully detained by police Published time: 8 Dec, 2017 16:38 Edited time: 9 Dec, 2017 14:55 © Global Look Press Up to 2,000 people a year needing mental health care have been unlawfully detained because there is no hospital bed for them. Some people have been held in police cells for several days, the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) says. Under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, officers have 24 hours after an arrested person arrives at a police station to release or charge them. But data gathered by the College of Policing shows 264 instances where people were held for longer when they were judged to be in need of mental health care after being released. Read more ‘We wouldn't treat animals like this’: Report reveals shocking child prison conditions In one case, an adult was detained for six days before a bed was identified. A child was detained for five days. The figures covered the last three months of 2016 and 21 out of the 43 police forces in England and Wales. Some of the biggest police forces returned no data, including London’s Metropolitan Police, the West Midlands or any of the Yorkshire forces. The NPCC estimates the national annual number of cases to be potentially more than 2,000. Police chiefs are now urging for an inquiry into mental health provisions. Officers often have to decide between releasing people who could pose a risk to themselves or others, or breaking rules set out in law by continuing to hold them in police cells beyond the 24-hour limit. Police forces have now called for an inquiry by the Care Quality Commission, the hospital regulator. When Theresa May was Home Secretary, she said no one with mental health problems should be detained by the police due to a lack of beds. Read more Squalid conditions in UK prisons ‘a humanitarian crisis,’ whistleblower tells RT (PHOTOS) The government says the use of police custody for people detained under the Mental Health Act had fallen sharply. A government spokesperson told the BBC: “Since we reviewed the use of police custody for Mental Health Act detentions, we have seen a 90 percent reduction in England in the number of people being held in custody who should be in NHS care, and Wales has had similar success.” It comes as a police officer filmed punching a handcuffed mental health suspect in the face has been cleared of using excessive force. Footage of the incident has been viewed almost 100,000 times since being posted on Facebook by a shocked onlooker in May. It shows three Avon and Somerset officers holding down the detained man in a town center as he clings onto one of their arms. After repeatedly warning the man, who had been detained under the Mental Health Act, to let go of his arm the officer raises his left fist and punches him hard in the face. Onlooker Luke Harris filmed the incident and posted it to Facebook. He wrote: “This guy was detained under the mental health act. Not a criminal.” Avon and Somerset Police say the force used was “reasonable and proportionate in the circumstances.” It added:“The man was detained under the Mental Health Act to safeguard him from harm and to protect the wider public.” (RT)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 12/10/2017 10:39:02 AM
	Israeli strikes kill 2 Hamas men after Gaza rocket attack By FARES AKRAM AND ARON HELLER, ASSOCIATED PRESS GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Dec 9, 2017, 1:59 PM ET The Associated Press Palestinian protesters run for cover from teargas fired by Israeli soldiers during clashes on the Israeli border following a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, east of Gaza City, Friday, Dec. 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) Israeli airstrikes killed two Hamas members early Saturday following a rocket attack on Israel, in the latest fallout from President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital — a development that has roiled the region and the larger Muslim world. The Israeli military said it targeted four Hamas facilities in response to rockets fired the previous night, including one that landed in the town of Sderot without causing casualties or major damage. The military said it struck warehouses and weapons manufacturing sites, after which Hamas said it had recovered the bodies of two of its men. Israel considers Hamas responsible for all rocket fire emanating from Gaza, which is home to other armed groups. Some residents of Sderot and other border towns spent the night in shelters, fearful of a resumption of rocket attacks from Gaza that have led to three Israel-Hamas wars over the past decade. Protests and demonstrations continued across the West Bank and Gaza on Saturday on the third and final so-called Palestinian "day of rage" following Trump's announcement. The military said there were clashes in some 20 locations. In Bethlehem, Palestinians hurled stones at Israeli troops, who responded with tear gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades. The Israeli military said some 600 Palestinians were throwing firebombs and rolling burning tires toward Israeli forces. It said it dispersed the crowds and arrested six rioters. Along the border with the Gaza Strip, some 450 Palestinians clashed with Israeli troops at eight main locations. About 20 were lightly wounded. Some 4,000 demonstrators gathered in Gaza City and demonstrations resumed in Pakistan, Turkey and elsewhere across the Muslim world as well. In Jerusalem, police forces — some on horseback — scuffled with protesters near the Old City and arrested 13 people who were involved in what they called an illegal protest. Four policemen were slightly injured. "President Trump cannot take what he doesn't have," said Zuheir Dana, one of the protesters from east Jerusalem. In a first, violence spilled into Israel itself, with Arab protesters blocking a major highway in the northern part of the country and hurling rocks at a bus and motorcycle rider, injuring two slightly. Israel has mobilized troops in case further violence breaks out. However, the clashes in the West Bank and east Jerusalem have yet to claim lives or spiral into the level of violence some had feared following Trump's move. Saturday saw a drop in the scope of the protests after clashes erupted Friday between Palestinian protesters and Israeli troops in dozens of West Bank hotspots and along the Gaza border. Two Palestinians were shot dead in Gaza and dozens were wounded in the West Bank. In Jerusalem, Friday prayers at Islam's third-holiest site dispersed largely without incident. Large crowds of worshippers across the Muslim world staged anti-U.S. marches Friday, some stomping on posters of Trump or burning American flags. Trump's announcement on Jerusalem, and his intention to move the U.S. Embassy there, triggered denunciations from around the world, with even close allies suggesting he had needlessly stirred more conflict in an already volatile region. The status of the city lies at the core of the Israeli-Palestinians conflict, and Trump's move was widely perceived as siding with Israel. Even small crises over Jerusalem's status and that of the holy sites in its ancient Old City have sparked deadly bloodshed in the past. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement and other groups have called for mass protests while its rival, the Gaza-based Islamic militant group Hamas, is calling for a third violent uprising against Israel, though such appeals have largely fizzled as Palestinians have become disillusioned with their leaders. Arab foreign ministers, meanwhile, gathered in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, for an emergency meeting to formulate a unified response to Trump's decision. It was not immediately clear what concrete measures might be taken to counter Trump's decision, but Arab diplomats have spoken of submitting a draft resolution condemning the move to the U.N. Security Council and unspecified measures regarding bilateral ties between Arab League member states and Washington. Hamas, which seeks Israel's destruction, killed hundreds of Israelis in suicide bombings and other attacks during the second Palestinian uprising in the early 2000s. Most countries have not recognized Israel's 1967 annexation of east Jerusalem and maintain their embassies in Tel Aviv. Under a longstanding international consensus, the fate of the city is to be determined in final status peace negotiations. Israel says it hopes others will follow Trump's lead, but the United States found itself alone in the U.N. Security Council on Friday, fielding criticism from the other 14 members over the proposed move. Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi said the council took a strong stance against "American violations of international law." "They have no mandate to give away Jerusalem to an occupying power or to violate international law in such a blatant and egregious manner," she said. While Trump's announcement was warmly welcomed in Israel as an acknowledgement of its longtime seat of government and the ancient capital of the Jewish people, it was greeted with outrage from Palestinians who considered it a slap in the face and an abandonment of the longtime American role as mediator in the conflict. After two decades of halting peace negotiations that have failed to bring Palestinians closer to statehood, some in Abbas' inner circle have begun to speak openly about abandoning the two-state formula in favor of a single binational state. In a sign of Palestinian frustration with the Americans, Abbas' political adviser Majdi Khaldi said the Palestinian president will not meet with Vice President Mike Pence when he visits the region later this month. "The U.S. crossed the red line in its decision about Jerusalem," he told The Associated Press. ———— Associated Press writer Hamza Hendawi reported from Cairo. Heller reported from Tel Aviv, Israel. (abcNEWS)
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12/10/2017 11:11:49 AM

Pakistani Air Force ordered to shoot down US drones

Published time: 9 Dec, 2017 00:13

Edited time: 9 Dec, 2017 19:47

Pakistan’s Air Force (PAF) commander has reportedly ordered to take down drones violating the country’s sovereignty, including that of the US.

Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman also recalled a historic breach of trust incident over a batch of US-made F-16's which Pakistan paid for, but never received. The jabs against America, a key ally, came Thursday in a speech Aman delivered at a ceremony of aviation students gathered in Islamabad. The top military official praised Pakistan’s air prowess, saying their forces are prepared to defend sovereignty of the country.

“We committed a mistake in Osama bin Laden's case but now the country’s sovereignty will be protected at all costs,” he told an audience at the AirTech 17 expo at the Air University. Aman was referring to the CIA-led US commando raid in May 2011, which involved a cross-border flight of Black Hawk helicopters from Jalalabad, Afghanistan to Abbottabad, Pakistan. The Pakistanis were not informed about the planned assassination beforehand, which sparked outrage in the country.

“We will not allow anyone to violate our airspace,” Aman said as cited by The Times of India, adding, that he has ordered the PAF“to shoot down drones, including those of the US, if they enter our airspace, violating the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity.”

The US flies drone missions over Pakistan and conducts airstrikes on suspected militants in the turbulent tribal area on the border with Afghanistan. The practice has prompted outrage amongst Pakistanis because of the high death toll it effects on civilians.

"In the past, the drones have been attacking targets in Pakistan. Earlier it was perhaps with the detested approval of the government of Pakistan. But in the last couple of years, the government of Pakistan has not provided any such approval,"Talat Masood, a retired three-star general in the Pakistani army told RT.

Masood explained that Pakistan is forced to protect its sovereignty in order to avert an Arab Spring scenario witnessed throughout the years across the wider Middle East.

"In fact, at the moment there are some scribes in the New York press or in the Washington press who are predicting that if Pakistan does not draw the line of the United States of America, a Syria-like situation maybe created over here. This has raised the hackles in Pakistan, because Pakistan cannot allow its territory to be used by others to engineer in the name of democracy, any farcical moves which can destabilize the country," he said.

Aman praised Pakistan’s aviation engineers and scientists, saying their expertise and brilliance means the country need not depend on foreign suppliers for military aircraft. He recalled the issue of the cancelled delivery of US-made F-16 fighter jets, for which Pakistan already paid a multi-million dollar down payment.

The episode illustrates the bumpy history of relations between Islamabad and Washington. In the ‘80s, the US needed Pakistani assistance to undermine Soviet troops in Afghanistan, pouring billions of dollars in cash and military aid into an “anti-Soviet jihad.”

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This, however, conflicted with US non-proliferation goals, since Pakistan was actively working on producing a nuclear weapon to counter arch-rival India’s newly acquired nuclear capability. US law prohibits providing any aid to a potential nuclear proliferator, so in order to keep Pakistan on its good side, a stop-gap solution was introduced – the 1985 Pressler Amendment.

Named after US Senator Larry Pressler, the legislation enabled a US president to certify to Congress that Pakistan was not developing nuclear weapons, and thus qualified for aid. The administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush did so for five years, despite intelligence to the contrary.

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#US top general says #Pakistan's intelligence is 'connected to terrorists' https://on.rt.com/8oy8

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Pakistan’s key intelligence ‘connected to terrorists' – US top general — RT World News

The Chairman of US Joint Chiefs of Staff has accused Pakistan’s main intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) directorate, of having ties with terrorists.

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But in 1990, USSR troops were no longer in Afghanistan, and Pakistan’s value diminished in Washington. The non-proliferation sanctions then kicked into force, putting a stop to the ongoing deal to deliver 28 F-16’s to the PAF. Pakistan was not only denied the planes, for which it paid Lockheed Martin over $650 million, but also audaciously slapped with a $50,000 per month storage fee. Ironically, the annual payments to the US defense contractor for the withheld jets continued until 1993, as Pentagon officials were telling the Pakistanis that the warplanes would eventually be delivered.

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The F-16’s eventually went to New Zealand while Pakistan and the US settled the dispute under Bill Clinton’s presidency, albeit via a partial compensation. In Pakistan, the story is perceived by many as a national humiliation, and an example as to why the Americans cannot be trusted. Denied the American fighter jets, Islamabad relied on China to develop a replacement, the CAC/PAC JF-17 Thunder, which has been produced in both countries since the mid-2000s.

Chief Marshal Aman praised the JF-17 corroboration as testament to Pakistan’s technological capabilities, saying the aircraft is superior to the F-16 “in all regards”. He added that the PAF will soon produce a 5th generation warplane under Project Azm, and announced developments in a national space program and potential joint space exploration with China.

The anti-American tinted speech by Pakistan’s senior military commander comes amid a period of tense relations between Islamabad and Washington. President Donald Trump harshly criticized Pakistan in August as he was announcing his administration’s new strategy for Afghanistan. The accusations fueled Pakistani sentiment that Washington cannot be relied upon.

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