A US House-Senate negotiating panel has decided to suspend USD 700 million in aid to Pakistan till the South Asian nation give the US an assurance that they would help them check the spread of homemade explosives devices in the region.
According to reports, the decision taken by the US House-Senate on Monday is likely to deteriorate the already strained US-Pakistan relationship.
The crucial plan of suspending the US aid was agreed as part of a defense bill that is likely to be passed this week.
US-Pakistan relationship has already witnessed significant downslide in recent times in the wake of the North-Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) helicopters attack on a checkpost in Pakistan-Afghanistan border that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.
