To: joseffy who wrote (62079 ) 12/14/2011 6:20:20 PM From: DuckTapeSunroof Respond to US cuts aid to Pakistan: Six key questions Obama administration has announced that it is suspending, and in some cases ending, millions of dollars in aid to the Pakistani military . The decision comes after substantial debate about whether that money is being used in the way that the US intended – a question raised in the wake of the American military raid that ended with Osama bin Laden 's death.Ben Arnoldy , Staff writer, Issam Ahmed , Correspondentcsmonitor.com US has provided $20.7 billion to Pakistan since 2002. A little more than two-thirds of that went to military use, the remainder to civilian.Frontier Corps , the Pakistani force doing most of the fighting, has received $100 million. Antiterrorism and nuclear nonproliferation efforts: $90 million.C. Christine Fair , assistant professor at Georgetown University in Washington .US reimburses Pakistan for costs associated with the numerous military operations launched following US goading.Defense Department has failed to obtain enough information to judge whether $2 billion in claims were valid, according to the government accountability office. Their 2008 report found evidence of double billing or repayment for unrelated or nonexistent efforts, including $200 million for radar upgrades – even though militants have no air force that would require such radar.Pervez Musharraf later confirmed suspicions that aid had been diverted to defend against India . “Whoever wishes to be angry, let them be angry,” he said in 2009. “The Americans should know … that we won’t compromise our security, and will use the equipment everywhere.” according to The Wall Street Journal . About $300 million of the suspended $800 million comes from this pool of reimbursements.Islamabad , via e-mail. “However, we do not control what the government of Pakistan does with reimbursement funds that go into the state bank.”
