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| Pakistan urgently needs $4-5 bn, says US senator |
| 2009-02-25 |
| WASHINGTON: The US and Europe must give Pakistan $4-5 billion in urgent aid or risk seeing the nuclear-armed country slip into chaos, two leading US foreign policy voices warned Tuesday. I need a billion or two, myself. Democratic Senator John Kerry and Republican former senator Chuck Hagel, now chair of the Atlantic Council, a think tank, were to release a formal report Wednesday appealing for international help to stabilise Pakistan, Geo TV reported. Figures. Hagel leaves and gets a prime gig telling us how to spend our tax dollars. "If we fail, we face a truly frightening prospect: Terrorist sanctuary, economic meltdown, and spiralling radicalism, all in a nation with 170 million inhabitants and a full arsenal of nuclear weapons," Kerry said in a statement released by the council. Kerry, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he and Republican Senator Richard Lugar would soon introduce a legislation aiming to provide Pakistan with $7.5 billion in non-military aid over the next five years. The bill, known as the Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act, would make the aid available on the condition that the US secretary of state certifies that Pakistan's security forces are making concerted efforts to prevent al-Qaida, the Taliban, and other terrorist groups, from operating from Pakistani territory. The report titled -- Needed: A Comprehensive US Policy Towards Pakistan -- "calls for an additional $4-5 billion of immediate financial aid for Pakistan to avert an economic meltdown," the statement added. |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #12 I know. I just like saying it. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-02-25 21:24 |
| #11 It's our resident troll, tu. It's trying a new tactic. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2009-02-25 21:11 |
| #10 Pakistan's a shithole. Islam is bullshit. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-02-25 20:52 |
| #9 Pakistan is peace. Islam is peace. |
| Posted by: Muhammad Googoo 2009-02-25 18:39 |
| #8 too hell with the pkais they ahve already let the taliban and alqueda take over their country, why should we pay for it, i would be willing too egotiate he price of a nuke if it was too be send their way armed |
| Posted by: rabid whitetail 2009-02-25 17:09 |
| #7 Then they'll like us. Really like us. Right, Jawn... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-02-25 13:45 |
| #6 There's people in hell that urgently need ice water, but they're not gonna get it either. |
| Posted by: mojo 2009-02-25 13:37 |
| #5 I'd settle for a Million, us Redneks don't use much money, mostly we barter. (But I'll Barter paper slips for food and fuel) |
| Posted by: Rednek Jim 2009-02-25 12:39 |
| #4 Hagel's a RINO, and sKerry's just insane. There's no profit in pouring more money into Pakistan. It's time for that monstrosity to cease to exist. The sooner, the better. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2009-02-25 12:35 |
| #3 Terrorist sanctuary, economic meltdown, and spiralling radicalism That's already the case and would continue to be even if we gave them $5 billion. Perhaps we should just tell the Indians to have at 'em and good luck. |
| Posted by: Spot 2009-02-25 08:01 |
| #2 I would like to know what a really good preemptive counter-force strike would cost? |
| Posted by: Dogsbody 2009-02-25 01:48 |
| #1 I need a billion or two, myself. I'd settle for a quarter billion. But then, I don't have a website to run. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2009-02-25 01:12 |