Another , pretext! was. piovided:to. Pakistan's General. Zia .to obtain niore niilitary aids fioiii thc United States by Soviet intervention inr.Afghanistani in f 1979. ,.Despite ,Pnkistan's 'burnin& of American emb'assy,;US:President CirteL offered a S 500 millioii niilitary'aid to €?akista'n;.an :-offer ispurned: by, Zia'Lul-Haq as peanuts. .Reagan adiiiiiiistration alsolupgradedl tlie'contiiiucd'siipply of.ini1itax-y aid to Pakistan in Septeniber'.1,98 1;'oiiiUnited :States S 3.2 billion'iiiilitary and ecoiiomic assistanck eiicoiii'ljassiiig I ~511i'gLins; Cobra gunships, TOW &ti-tank! iiiissiles; upgradation. ofM48'tii;ks to.A3 stahdard with a prize catch containing US coniniifmeiit to supply 40F-I 6 planks on a cash basis of S 1.1 billion, 70 of them before October 1982j.