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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUS quietly releasing 1.8 billion in pakistan assistance
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_UNITED_STATES_PAKISTAN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-10-19-08-54-42WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. has quietly decided to release more than $1.6 billion in military and economic aid to Pakistan that was suspended when relations between the two countries disintegrated over the covert raid that killed Osama bin Laden and deadly U.S. airstrikes against Pakistani soldiers.
Officials and congressional aides said ties have improved enough to allow the money to flow again.
American and NATO supply routes to Afghanistan are open. Controversial U.S. drone strikes are down. The U.S. and Pakistan recently announced the restart of their "strategic dialogue" after a long pause. Pakistan's new prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, is traveling to Washington for talks this coming week with President Barack Obama.
But in a summer dominated by foreign policy debates over the coup in Egypt and chemical weapons attacks in Syria, the U.S. hasn't promoted its revamped aid relationship with Pakistan. Neither has Pakistan.
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xchrom
Oct 2013
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jsr
(7,712 posts)1. More money for Pakistani officials to put in their Swiss bank accounts
KoKo
(84,711 posts)2. $1.6 billion to Pakistan? That's incredible!
Think of what could be done with that here at home. When will this ever end...
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)3. This is why we can't have nice things....like UHC.
seveneyes
(4,631 posts)5. Ransom money is all I can figure
Why else would we give huge amounts of OUR money to a country that kills Gays, abuses Women and promotes Islamic terror?
Faux pas
(14,681 posts)6. This foreign aid sh*t
has to end. Are charity begins at home and clean up your own back yard first such hard concepts?
(flame on)