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New report on this disgusting story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/world/asia/pakistan-blood-money-linked-to-widows-killing-police-say.html

Carl - Given the effects of the Pressler Amendment and subsequent cutoff of aid in 1990, I think that may be rather wistful thinking. The Pakistani Army saw itself isolated and without Western...

I think American policymakers are quite sensitive to what New Delhi thinks. Witness the skittering that took place when the President spoke about Kashmir last year, followed by the predictable...

DAWN is about as pro-Western a publication as one can find in Pakistan, and a leading voice against militancy.

Here is an article about Secretary Clinton's outreach in Pakistan.

Well, you gotta figure the vast majority of money we spend in Afghanistan is spent on combat operations and our own forces. Plus we don't have to build a state or an army or a police force from...

Additional figures from the Congressional Research Service via FAS:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/pakaid.pdf

From 2002 - 2008, this adds up to 12.087 billion.

The FY 2009 request is for...

$50 billion a year? Not that much ... more like $11 billion total from 9/11 to 2008, I think.

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/08/pakistan_aid_numbers.html

The vast majority of it...

CSIS - A Perilous Course: U.S. Strategy and Assistance to Pakistan (pdf)
Over $10 billion in aid to Pakistan since 9/11, and what to show for it?

Recommendations include shifting aid from a...

PT - Don't misunderstand me, I am hardly a Musharraf apologist. I think the best result for all would actually be if he resigned and left the country and open elections were held - unfortunately he...

What sort of offensive operations are you talking about? Are we talking about the 82nd Airborne or I MEF setting up shop independently in North Waziristan and basically occupying the area?

If...

Some rather large questions.

I'm pretty sure that a Pakistani government which we severed relations with would view a U.S. military incursion onto its territory as a violation of...

Four attempts, assuming you buy the fourth.

I'm not buying the much ballyhooed Islamist takeover of Pakistan. The greatest threat to the President does not come from al-Qaeda and associated...