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Report: U.S. To Drastically Curtail Security Aid To Pakistan | Three unnamed top U.S. officials told the New York Times that the U.S. intends to cut or suspend hundreds of millions of dollars of aid to Pakistan, underscoring a shifting administration view that the troubled nation is an unreliable counter-terror parter. The aid in question encompasses equipment, training, reimbursements for activities on the Afghan border, and direct security aid. Washington’s relationship with Islamabad has been publicly tense since the killing of Osama Bin Laden in a Pakistani garrison town.