Author: PTI
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: September 27, 2011
URL: http://www.dailypioneer.com/pioneer-news/top-story/9476-bill-introduced-in-us-house-to-freeze-all-aid-to-pak.html
A key American lawmaker from Texas has introduced
a resolution in the House of Representative to freeze all US aid to Pakistan.
The House Resolution (No HR 3013) if passed
will freeze all US aid to Pakistan with the exception of funds that are designated
to help secure nuclear weapons.
"Since the discovery of Osama bin Laden
in Abbottabad, Pakistan has proven to be disloyal, deceptive and a danger
to the United States," Congressman Ted Poe said in a statement after
tabling the resolution in the House on Friday.
"This so-called ally continues to take
billions in US aid, while at the same time supports the militants who attack
us.
"The United States must immediately freeze
all aid to Pakistan," said Poe, who is a member of the House Committee
on Foreign Affairs.
Pakistan has made it "painfully obvious"
that they will continue their policy of "duplicity and deceit" by
pretending to be US ally in the war on terror while simultaneously promoting
violent extremism, the Congressman said.
According Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, just this month the Pakistani government supported the groups
who were behind both the truck bomb attack that wounded more than 70 US and
NATO Troops and the attack on the US Embassy, Poe said.
The resolution has been sent to the House Foreign Affairs Committee for necessary
action.
It is only after this key Congressional committee
approves the resolution that it will be sent to the House of Representatives.
Notably only a few resolutions enter the House
of Representatives.
