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Friday, August 03, 2012

US continues flow of arms to Pakistan while poverty and anger grows

P-3C Orion |The United States has provided over $25 billion in direct overt aid and military reimbursements to Pakistan since 9/11 according to updates released by the US Congress Research Service to a report released in April this year.

Of this, nearly $17 billion has been under various security related programs and over $8 billion for economic support programs.

These figures do not include Coalition Support Funds (CSF), given by US Pentagon to its allies in various wars, for the current year.

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