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The White House is withholding some $800 million in military aid to Pakistan
Britain’s Guardian newspaper’s website has pulled out an interesting set of data for U.S. military aid and economic assistance (including development assistance) to Pakistan between 1948 and 2010.
The White House said on Sunday it was withholding some $800 million in military assistance to Pakistan in a show of displeasure over its cutback on U.S. trainers, limits on visas for U.S. personnel and other bilateral irritants.
The Guardian notes that it is not the first time the United States has withheld money to Pakistan.
In the 1970s, President Carter suspended all aid to Pakistan (except food aid) in response to the South Asian country’s decision to construct a uranium enrichment facility, the Guardian said.
The dataset comes from Wren Elhai at the Washington-based Centre for Global Development, which in May published a report along with Nancy Birdsall and Molly Kinder analysing the long-term impact of U.S. aid to Pakistan.
Since Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. special forces in northern Pakistan in May, a heated debate has emerged over whether Islamabad has clamped down hard enough on terrorism to deserve the billions of dollars in foreign assistance it's received in recent years.
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