I guess that means never.
"Pakistani groups screened to receive US aid" by Farah Stockman, Globe Staff | March 17, 2010
WASHINGTON — The $7.5 billion the US government has pledged to spend on civilian assistance in Pakistan over the next five years is slowly making its way to the troubled country, after months of debate over how the money should be spent and how to ensure that it is properly used.
I'm glad your bankrupted ass has the dough to expend over lies, American taxpayers.
That money going to build up what we have destroyed, or is it going into political pockets like all aid?
About 20 Pakistani organizations and government agencies have been screened as potential recipients, US envoys said yesterday at a hearing called by US Representative John F. Tierney, a Salem Democrat who chairs the House subcommittee on national security and foreign affairs. About 50 more organizations are expected to be declared eligible.
Do they screen the money sent to Israel or is it just a signature on a blank check?
Organizations that have been reviewed include the Higher Education Council, the government of North-West Frontier Province, the Benazir Bhutto Support Fund, and the FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas) Secretariat, according to Dan Feldman, deputy special representative for Pakistan. Tierney and others expressed concern that the checks on corruption and mismanagement might not be sufficient.
Look at the AmeriKan kettle holler Pakistani pot!!
“We must make certain the administration’s new strategy will not send more money through weaker systems — systems that lack the internal controls developed with time and experience,’’ Tierney said, although he made it clear that he supports the aid.
How about NOT SENDING THEM ANYTHING, STOPPING the DESTRUCTION, LEAVING the Pakistani people ALONE, and LETTING THEM SOLVE THEIR OWN PROBLEMS!?
Related: Letter From Pakistan
How about that, huh?
Tierney has previously contended that millions in US aid to the Pakistani military could not be accounted for.
Yeah, but here that is okay. Congress runs around "investigating" after all the money has been stolen! That's why I DO NOT WANT IT GOING OUT in the FIRST PLACE!
Representative Peter Welch, Democrat of Vermont, said, “If there is not a mechanism that is solid, we are going to have Iraq all over again.’’
Well, I'm $ure $omebody i$ liking the $ound of that, cha-ching!!
But attempts to mandate accountability for the funds have drawn a strong reaction from Pakistanis. Language in the bill caused a firestorm in the fall when some institutions, particularly the military, contended some provisions eroded Pakistan’s sovereignty.
Of course, the U.S. government would have no problem with someone telling it how to spend its aid, right?
The aid package — known in Pakistan as the Kerry-Lugar funds after Senators John F. Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, and Richard G. Lugar, Republican of Indiana, who sponsored the bill — will make Pakistan among the top recipients of US economic aid. The $1.5 billion Pakistan is authorized to receive annually in nonmilitary aid is about half of what Afghanistan is slated to get this year, but more than the estimated $1 billion the State Department expects to spend on aid to Iraq.
JUST TOSSING BILLIONS AROUND ALL OVER the PLACE, huh, Americans?
Are the LIE$ WORTH IT?
But spending the money effectively is a challenge, especially in the FATA, where Pakistan’s government has made few inroads. In 2007, the Bush administration said it would spend $750 million in those lands, but only $220 million has been spent, James Bever, director of the USAID Afghanistan Pakistan Task Force, said.
So WHO STOLE the REST?
Musharaff?
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Doesn't really matter much, does it?
WASHINGTON — The United States is likely to pay nearly $2 billion this spring that Pakistan says it is owed for its cooperation in the fight against terrorism, Pakistan’s top diplomat said yesterday.
Are the LIE$ WORTH IT, America?
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made no mention of that long-sought payment, or of plans to speed up approval for weapons sales sought by Pakistan. The two nations reported only modest progress in discussions aimed at broadening their cooperation.
Another government I'm giving up on.
At the end of the first of two days of a high-level dialogue, Clinton and Pakistan’s foreign minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, were smiling as they announced the US-Pakistani relationship has evolved into a partnership covering a wide range of security and development programs. “Today, I am a happy man, a satisfied man,’’ Qureshi said. “We have upgraded the dialogue.’’
Qureshi said he expects the terrorism payment by the end of June and that the United States will put requests for military equipment on a “fast track.’’
Clinton referred only vaguely to a promise to work together on a multiyear security package that would include military financing.
Clinton said the Obama administration is committed to helping Pakistan with its chronic energy shortages but declined to respond substantively when asked about nuclear cooperation.
Yeah, you never read much about those "chronic power shortages" in the AmeriKan paper. I imagine the AmeriKan bombings are not helping much.
Oh, they NOT going to get HELP on nuclear power like India?
Related: Pakistan and India's Other Problems
“We will listen to and engage with our Pakistani partners’’ on issues they raise, she said.
But doing anything? Ha!
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