AP sources: US to up Pakistani military aid by $2B

[unhappycamper]

AP sources: US to up Pakistani military aid by $2B
(AP) – 8 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is laying out a new multiyear, multibillion-dollar military aid package for Pakistan as it presses the Islamabad government to step up the fight against extremists there and in neighboring Afghanistan, U.S. officials say.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi were to unveil the plan Friday at the end of the latest round of high-level U.S.-Pakistani strategic talks here, the officials said.

The money will be provided over the next five years under the State Department's Foreign Military Financing program that funds other countries' purchases of U.S.-made arms, ammunition and accessories, the officials said. Precise details of what Pakistan will receive under the program were still being determined, they said.

The officials would speak only on condition of anonymity ahead of the announcement, which the administration hoped would reassure Pakistan of the long-term U.S. commitment to Pakistan's military needs and help it bolster its efforts to go after Taliban and al-Qaida affiliates on its territory.

The new aid package will not benefit Pakistani military units suspected of human rights abuses. The Obama administration already has cut off aid to some Pakistani units over concerns they may have been involved in abuses that include extrajudicial killings and torture, a senior U.S. official said late Thursday.



unhappycamper comment: I wonder how much of the aid that the United States promised to Haiti actually got to Haiti?

[xchrom]

1. what could poor schools do with 2 bil here? nt

[rug]

2. "The new aid package will not benefit Pakistani military units suspected of human rights abuses."

Now how are they going to do that?

[lib2DaBone]

3. How about $2 Billion for the jobless..... here at home?

who is running the country..latch-key nation...

[MadHound]

4. Plenty of money for war, very little for we the people,

We've got our priorities all fucked up.