US considers aid to Pakistan
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The United States is considering a new aid strategy for Pakistan that will triple unconditional non-security aid to 1.5 billion US dollars annually. However security funding would be tied directly to counter terrorism performance. The plan to link security aid to results, aims to push the Pakistani military to finally crush Al-Qaeda and Taliban groups, believed to be based along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
Inadequate security across the region's borders has also reinforced the ongoing problem in tackling Afghanistan's thriving opium trade.
Presenter: Sonja Heydeman
Speaker: Christina Oguz, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime representative in Afghanistan
