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US Senate ties Pakistan aid to Haqqani crackdown 22-09-2011 Reuters
WASHINGTON: A US Senate committee voted on Wednesday to make economic and security aid to Pakistan conditional on its cooperation in fighting militants such as the Haqqani network, which Washington blames for last week’s attack on the US embassy in Kabul.
The Senate Appropriations Committee decision reflected lawmakers’ anger at Islamabad over militants who operate out of Pakistan and battle US troops in Afghanistan. Washington has pressed Pakistan to go after the Haqqani network, which it believes enjoys sanctuaries in Pakistan’s unruly ethnic Pashtun tribal region on the Afghan border. The Senate committee did not specify any amount for economic aid to Pakistan for fiscal 2012, leaving it up to the Obama administration to set the level and notify Congress – or provide nothing at all. “If the administration wants to provide zero, that’d be OK with us,” said Republican Senator Mark Kirk, one of the more vocal critics of Pakistan on the panel. The committee did approve $1 billion for the Pakistan Counter-insurgency Capability Fund, which was created in 2009 to help Pakistan’s military develop counter-insurgency capabilities to fight Islamist militants within its borders. But the committee voted to make this aid, as well as any economic aid that is provided, conditional on Pakistan’s cooperating with Washington against several militant groups. In addition to the Haqqani network, these groups include al Qaeda and the Quetta Shura – the remains of the Afghan Taliban government overthrown and driven into Pakistan by the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan. They also include Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Punjab-based group blamed for attacks on Mumbai, India, in November 2008. The restrictions were part of a foreign aid bill that the committee approved and sent to the Senate floor. It will have to be reconciled with the House of Representatives, where lawmakers in one subcommittee have voted similar restrictions. Pakistan also gets US military aid via the Pentagon budget. But Washington is already withholding $800 million of that aid this year as ties have come under mounting strain. Many lawmakers have been calling for aid to Pakistan to be reduced since US special forces found and killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin laden in a Pakistan military town on May 2. Washington has allocated about $20 billion for Pakistan over the last decade. In fiscal 2010, Congress approved $1.7 billion for economic aid for Pakistan, and $2.7 billion in security aid, the Congressional Research Service says. |
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Do you have any idea how much mess you are making?
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IAM NOT MESSING. I AM ONLY SHARING INFORMATION FROM THE DAWN WEBSITE. LINK IS BELOW:
SOURCE: US Senate ties Pakistan aid to Haqqani crackdown | Pakistan | DAWN.COM |
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Ms. if i am messing then why Dawn group published this news on their website. i am only sharing this information with css aspirants for the sake of their guidance. first please go to link which i mentioned in previous post then blame me for messing.
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bro i think last island want you to avoid posting news items;the forum allows only articles and columns and the like to be posted. if this is so,avoid posting news items.
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MR. UNITER, i think u r not css aspirant. u r aspirant of any ssc or hsc exam. do u know that news is one of the basic pillar of css exam. it helps in prepartion of current affairs and other papers. if u do not have command on news then u will not get through css exam. i think this forum is for css preparation not for ssc or hsc preparation so i posted news on this forum. is this crime. is it crime then i am guilty and css forum has right to give me punishment. i mentioned source of that news in my previous post and it is not written by me for being famous. if any one want proof then he or she should go to dawn webpage and confirm that news from dawn website.
if there is no encouragement on the forum for posting or sharing news and articles and other valuable information for css aspirants then in future no member will post or share any valuable information. |
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Not every news and article is important. And you are making mess by posting Dawn articles in News and Articles section whereas we have a separate section for Dawn; Articles from Foreign newspapers in Dawn section etc etc. You never paste sources and links.
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Ms. iam posting my news and articles to their destined folder which is described by your forum. iam posting dawn articles in dawn not in the news folder. i agree with u that in start of posting i did not mention source in some posts but when u warned me for source then i started mentioning source in later posts. u can check my posts inwhich only few posts are without source while remaining have source mentioned below or above.
Please....encourage members for posting or sharing not for saying that they are messing. |
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