Security-related U.S. help programs for Pakistan are said to be gone for supporting Islamabad's counterterrorism and fringe security endeavors, and have included U.S.- financed street building ventures in the Northwest Frontier Province and Federally Administered Tribal Areas, the arrangement of night-vision hardware, interchanges equip, defensive vests, 26 transport helicopters, and, as of now in the pipeline, six utilized C-130 transport airplane. The United States additionally has attempted to prepare and prepare new Pakistan Army Air Assault units that can move rapidly to discover and target psychological militant components. The Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff reports that the Pakistani Army has "altogether enhanced their counterterrorism capacities, thanks to some extent to hardware we are giving them, and has assumed avital part in improving security in this locale."
In September 2004, the Pentagon informed Congress of the conceivable Foreign Military Sale to Pakistan of $78 million worth of military radio frameworks intended to enhance Pakistani correspondence capacities and to expand interoperability amongst Pakistani and U.S.- drove counterterrorist powers. In November, potential deals to Pakistan of eight P-3C sea surveillance flying machine, six Phalanx maritime weapons, and 2,000 TOW hostile to protection rockets were declared. The arrangements could be worth up to $1.2 billion for Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, the prime temporary workers. The Department of Defense portrays the P-3Cs and TOW rockets as having critical hostile to psychological oppression applications (a claim that has evoked distrust from a few investigators), and it stated that the proposed deals would not influence the military adjust in the locale. India's outside undertakings serve has "forewarned the United States "against any choice to offer F-16 warrior planes to Pakistan, including that the "U.S. arms supply to Pakistan would negatively affect the goodwill the United States appreciates with India, especially as a sister vote based system." The Pentagon reports Foreign Military Sales concurrences with Pakistan worth $27 million in FY2002, $167 million in FY2003, and $176 million in FY2004.
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