Good. Only $4.1 billion more to cut. This sham alliance, and the showering of billions on Pakistan for nothing, should be ended, and should have been ended long ago. Our friend and ally Pakistan is a more reliable friend to the jihad terrorists it collects our money for fighting than it is to the United States. The money we shower upon Pakistan could be much better spent on initiatives actually to oppose jihad terror, rather than enable it. There is evidence that the Pakistani government has been directly involved in jihad attacks.
“US cuts Pakistan’s aid by $440 million,” by Shahbaz Rana, Express Tribune, August 16, 2019:
The United States has further cut Pakistan’s aid by $440 million, bringing down its commitments under Kerry Lugar Berman Act to just $4.1 billion, which is slightly over half of the total amount that Washington had promised to give nine years ago.
The decision to cut Pakistan’s economic assistance, being disbursed under the Kerry Lugar legislation of 2009, was officially conveyed to Islamabad about three weeks before the planned visit of Prime Minister Imran Khan to the United States, sources in the Ministry of Economic Affairs told The Express Tribune.