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2015-02-04 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Steve White 2015-02-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Cut it by 100% forall of me.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2015-02-04 00:30|| 2015-02-04 00:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Pakistan funds and trains Taliban supports a number of terrorist groups and hid obl/omar.why do the west fund them is beyond me!

Posted by paul 2015-02-04 06:20|| 2015-02-04 06:20|| Front Page Top

#3 why do the west fund them is beyond me!

paul, this is called bureaucratic inertia.
Pakistan was funded as the counter-balance to the socialist, Soviet (non, ha) aligned India in the good old cold war days.

Once the spigot is turned on it takes an act of God to turn it down not to mention off.

Posted by AlanC 2015-02-04 08:34|| 2015-02-04 08:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Extortion for our Afghan Forces logistical shipping support through PakLand

Posted by Frank G 2015-02-04 12:40|| 2015-02-04 12:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Is the last American troop out of Afghanistan yet...

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-02-04 14:52|| 2015-02-04 14:52|| Front Page Top

#6 Because on that day I'd consider giving all Pakistani aid to India.

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-02-04 14:53|| 2015-02-04 14:53|| Front Page Top

#7 The administration has sought over $800 million

The latest data shows that Pakistan spent $6,630,000,000 on their military in 2012 which amounted to 2.7% of the country's the country's GDP that year.

Just a drop in the bucket.

Posted by Spinetch Pelosi3286 2015-02-04 19:04|| 2015-02-04 19:04|| Front Page Top

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