- The Defense Security Cooperation Agency announces an agreement on April 30.
- This sale will improve India's ability to detect threats, says DSCA.
- Deal aims to support the United States-India strategic association, promote security in southern Asia.
The United States has approved a possible arms agreement of $ 131 million with India to help improve its maritime surveillance system at a time when tensions between India and Pakistan are increasing.
The agreement was announced on April 30 by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), a United States government agency that manages defense sales to other countries.
The DSCA said the sale will include Seavision software, training, support services and other tools to help India monitor activities in the Indo-Pacific region.
“This sale will improve India's ability to detect threats and strengthen its position in the region,” said the DSCA in an official statement.
The agreement aims to support the strategic association between the United States and India and promote security in southern Asia.
The main contractor of this sale is an American company called Hawkeye 360, based in Virginia. No US military personnel will be sent to India as part of this agreement.
The DSCA also made it clear that this sale will not change the military balance in the region.
This development occurs only a few days after the growing tensions between India and Pakistan, especially after recent violence in Jammu and Kashmir illegally.
The terrorist attack of April 22 in Pahalgam, Iiojk, in which 26 tourists were killed, India blamed Pakistan for the assault without presenting evidence, which caused a series of diplomatic and strategic actions of retaliation on both sides.
Subsequently, Nueva Delhi suspended the Treaty of the Indo's waters, revoked Pakistani visas and closed the Wagah-Attari border crossing, among other measures.
In addition, earlier on Wednesday, the United States Department of State said that Secretary of State Marco Rubio asked India and Pakistan to work together to relieve tensions.
During his phone call with Rubio, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif highlighted the main role of Pakistan in the fight against terror, noting that the country had sacrificed more than 90,000 lives and suffered more than $ 152 billion in economic losses, according to a statement from the prime minister's office.
When describing the recent actions of India as “scales and provocative”, Prime Minister Shehbaz called them deeply disappointing and warned that they could distract Pakistan from their efforts to combat terrorism.
He firmly rejected India's attempts to link Pakistan with Pahalgam's attack and repeated his call to transparent, credible and neutral investigation.
