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New aid package heading to Pakistan

The Obama administration is laying out a new multiyear, multibillion-dollar military aid package for Pakistan as it presses the Islamabad government to step up ...

Federal News Network Staff

October 22, 2010 9:21 am

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The Obama administration is expected to announce $2 billion in aid for the Pakistan military today. But certain units won’t get any money because they may have committed torture and summary execution. A 1997 law prevent U.S. aid from going to foreign military groups suspected of atrocities. A source tells the New York Times, the Pakistani troops in question conducted offensives against Taliban fighters in the Swat Valley and South Waziristan.

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