Civilian Aid
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008Pakistan has been sanctioned an aid of USD 7.5 billion for civilian aid by America. Apart from this there is an USD 3 billion aid for military assistance. Inspite of these generous funding being extended to Pakistan there has been an additional claim for an aid of USD 30 billion to fight al-Qaida and Taliban. But Pakistan seems to have a convincing reason for this claim. In a talk with “The Washington Times”, Hussain Haqqani has justified Pakistan’s claim by saying that the aid which they seek is much lesser than the current funding extended to banks and other US companies.