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Kerry-Lugar Bill

Kerry-Lugar bill

When you ask some one to "cease" doing something objectionable, a child can infer that you are passing judgement that the named some one is guilty. When that "some one"…

Kerry-Lugar

Kerry-Lugar

The Kerry-Lugar controversy has escalated in this country over the past week. And what has been the most surprising element of this controversy is that a democratically-elected President of Pakistan…

Kerry-Lugar Raucous

Kerry-Lugar raucous

The Kerry-Lugar Bill is a mirror that projects the ugly reality of Pakistan as a financially impoverished state that has neither attained the desirable level of sovereignty nor democracy. The…

Changes Needed In Bills

Changes needed in bills

The Kerry-Lugar and Berman bills are being moved simultaneously in the Senate and House of Representatives. A joint committee of legislators from both the houses shall then sit and merge…

Deciphering The US Aid Bill

Deciphering the US aid bill

Never let the facts get in the way of a good debate. That pretty much sums up the approach to the Kerry-Lugar/Berman bill, officially, the Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act…

Kerry-Lugar

Kerry-Lugar

The Kerry-Lugar bill, just passed by the US Congress and expected to be signed soon by President Obama, leaves an odd taste in the mouth. After wading through its tortuous…

The Kerry-Lugar Distraction

The Kerry-Lugar distraction

The Kerry-Lugar Bill has become the black-hole of Pakistani political debate. Its din of conflicting rhetoric and opinion drowns out everything else -- even good sense. Sovereignty, which reference to…

The Kerry-Lugar Offerings

The Kerry-Lugar offerings

The US administration and its representatives in Pakistan must be chewing on their nails ever since the House passed the reconciled 2009 bill on aid to Pakistan. Just as Senator…

John Kerry And $1.5 Billion

John Kerry and $1.5 billion

John Kerry, of the Kerry-Lugar fame that envisages the release of around 1.5 billion dollars per annum to Pakistan for the next five years, has written a letter to Richard…