bobbyw24
05-09-2011, 05:55 AM
WASHINGTON -- Top lawmakers on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee defended aid to Pakistan on Sunday despite lingering questions about how much the Pakistani government knew about Osama bin Laden's whereabouts.
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In 2009, President Obama signed into law the Enhanced Partnership With Pakistan Act. Also known as the Kerry-Lugar-Berman bill, the law authorizes $1.5 billion in annual U.S. aid to Pakistan through 2013.
In an interview on CNN's "State of the Union," SFRC Ranking Member Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) said he doesn't think the United States will cut off aid to Pakistan.
"No, I don't see that at all," said Lugar. "As a matter of fact, Pakistan is a critical factor in the war against terror, our war, the world's war against it, simply because there are a lot of terrorists in Pakistan. There are al Qaeda still. There are many Taliban. They go back and forth to Afghanistan."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/08/john-kerry-dick-lugar-aid-pakistan_n_859080.html
http://www.usaid.gov/fani/cover.gif
In 2009, President Obama signed into law the Enhanced Partnership With Pakistan Act. Also known as the Kerry-Lugar-Berman bill, the law authorizes $1.5 billion in annual U.S. aid to Pakistan through 2013.
In an interview on CNN's "State of the Union," SFRC Ranking Member Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) said he doesn't think the United States will cut off aid to Pakistan.
"No, I don't see that at all," said Lugar. "As a matter of fact, Pakistan is a critical factor in the war against terror, our war, the world's war against it, simply because there are a lot of terrorists in Pakistan. There are al Qaeda still. There are many Taliban. They go back and forth to Afghanistan."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/08/john-kerry-dick-lugar-aid-pakistan_n_859080.html