right rob many thanks indeed rob runs that live in washington let's get a view on this now from sahal khanwho is a visiting research fellow at the cato institute's defense and foreign policy to fire department she's in the audience and genea good to have you with us how do you think the pakistani government will respond to this. well i think you know the facts and government is basically they shouldn't be shocked that these threats are to the place president i declared in january that in front of doing security military at the coalition support fund which is what these cuts are the lead up to was on the table and so i think iran is probably was prepared for these and so what impact does this have though on the border control between pakistan and afghanistan in the fight against the taliban does it hinder it well i think from back sons perspective they will certainly say that you know because of these military security aide cuts that their ability to protect their side of the border with afghanistan is lying to you know so to reduce their capacity to do so and it will not only hinder them f