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More money for Pak: US Senators

“Our policy is not based on support for an individual,” US Senator Hagel told reporters in New Delhi on Wednesday.

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NEW DELHI: “Our policy is not based on support for an individual,” US Senator Hagel told reporters in New Delhi on Wednesday. He was in the capital with senators John Kerry and Joe Biden, after observing Monday’s elections in Pakistan.

He explained that Washington had no choice but to deal with Musharraf, as he was the president of Pakistan.

Joe Biden also made the important point that the the greatest bulwark against terror was democracy. He said there was the need for a significant increase in US economic assistance to Pakistan.”

The money is needed to build schools, roads and bridges,” Biden said. He was perhaps acknowledging that the Bush administrations decision to spend billions of dollars to arm Pakistan may not be good enough.

The senator also said that the war against terror, and the fight against jehadis, cannot be won without also dealing with the situation in Afghanistan.

Senator John Kerry said that every leader in Pakistan, whether it was president Musharraf, PPP’s Asif Zardari or the PML’s Nawaz Sharif all agreed that there was an urgent need to bring down the level of violence in Pakistan.

“Yes, mistakes have been made in the past by Pakistan, and that all three of us have been critical of some of the choices made by Musharraf in the past, but these policies have been rejected by the people of Pakistan,” Kerry said. He said Musharraf’s decision to dismiss the SC judge, to subvert the constitution and declare emergency was not right. At the same time Musharraf had kept his word, the senators said.
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