Peanuts to India, Pak gets $300-m US aid

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/781284.cms

AGENCIES< SATURDAY, JULY 17, 2004 06:03:12 AM >

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WASHINGTON: India will get a meagre US $95 million in foreign aid from the United States compared to a whopping over US $700 million for Pakistan of which US $300 million is for military assistance.

The provisions have been made in the US $19.4 billion foreign aid bill passed by the US house of representatives on Thursday by 270 to 132 votes.

Economic aid to Pakistan was supposed to be US $300 million- the same amount as for military aid-but, with additions from various heads, it comes to more than US $400 million, taking the total for the next financial year to over US $700 million.

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So, over the next five years we've promised Pakistan 5 billion dollars????? This is on top of excusing the debt of $493 million? Hell, that's way better than the people of the US are getting from our own government. And look how much is going for military aid. Pakistan could probably get this much from Dr. Kahn's nuclear weapons yard sale.

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1. I imagine that will make some Indians in the USA upset

and, of course, over there in India, too.

Isn't Pakistan where they have all the Terrorist breeding grounds?


And ..we need probably could use that money for our own citizens.

[InkAddict]

2. They're just making the Indians work for it

geesh, didn't we give them bunches of government IT contracts as well as Customer Service phone banks (for which are needed databases full of demographics and manufacturing product/warranty info)

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3. Cool. The Indians will have a tantrum and start a war with Pakistan...

With luck, Pakistan will launch some nukes in retaliation and destroy all of the businesses America has put in that country.
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Maybe that's why Pakistan is getting more money. India is getting the jobs and the prosperity. Who's outsourcing to Pakistan?

And why are we giving either country anything when our own has ballooning problems of its own?!