Rice: US will review aid to Pakistan

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Source: AP

Rice: US will review aid to Pakistan By ANNE GEARAN, AP Diplomatic Writer
1 hour, 36 minutes ago



JERUSALEM - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday the U.S. will review its aid to Pakistan after the country's military ruler suspended the constitution. Her announcement puts in question some of the billions in U.S. assistance to a close terrorism-fighting ally.

On a Mideast trip now overshadowed by the unfolding crisis in nuclear-armed Pakistan, Rice suggested that the Bush administration would not suspend aid wholesale.

The U.S. has provided about $11 billion to Pakistan since 2001, when Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, made a strategic shift to ally with the United States after the Sept. 11 attacks.

"Some of the aid that goes to Pakistan is directly related to the counterterrorism mission," Rice told reporters traveling with her. "We just have to review the situation. But I would be very surprised if anyone wants the president to ignore or set aside our concerns about terrorism," Rice said.



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Pentagon says emergency does not affect US support to Pakistan

By ANI
Sunday November 4, 10:44 AM
Washington, Nov.4 (ANI): U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is monitoring the fast-developing situation in Pakistan,even as the Pentagon said that the declaration of state of emergency in that country would not affect U.S. military support to Islamabad.

"Pakistan is a very important ally in the war on terror and he is closely following the developments there,'' Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell told reporters aboard Gates' plane as he traveled to China.

The emergency declaration "does not impact our military support of Pakistan or its efforts in the war on terror," Morrell added.

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