"The new aid package, totaling $2 billion, is meant to replace one that expired Oct. 1. It would complement $7.5 billion in aid that the United States has already pledged to Pakistan for civilian projects, some have which have been directed toward helping the nation recover from the damaging floods." Over then NEXT 5 YEARS the Obama administration is planned to give aid to the Pakistan military for what is believed to be around $2 billion dollars in aid. This is the same Pakistan military that killed civilian lives in order to remove the Taliban. Hillary Rodham Clinton the Secretary of State for the U.S addressed this in Washington with the Pakistani foreign minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, beside him. This concluded a seris of meeting between the two nations that has been going on for the past few days. Clinton did not talk about the situations that have caused unarmed people as well as civilians to lose their lives. The officials who described the decision said it, "would affect the Pakistani Army and special operations troops supported by the United States that have conducted offensives against Taliban fighters in the Swat Valley and South Waziristan in the past year."
By:Chase Pavlick
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/23/world/asia/23policy.html?_r=1&hp
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