Japan to give Pakistan $1 bln in aid: Nikkei

[Coventina]

Source: Washington Post

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's government is finalizing plans to provide Pakistan with up to $1 billion in economic aid over the next two years, the Nikkei business daily reported Saturday.

The assistance would consist of yen loans and grant aid, and is aimed at helping poverty-stricken areas that could become breeding grounds for extremists, as well as finance infrastructure, education and job training, the Nikkei said.

Japan will announce the details on April 17 at a Pakistan donors conference in Tokyo that it is co-hosting with the World Bank, the paper said.

Pakistan has said it is seeking between $4 billion to $6 billion in aid pledges at the donors conference to fill a financing gap over the next two years.



Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/11/AR2009041100271.html

[cosmicone]

1. Good money after bad hmmmmmmm n/t

[friedgreentomatoes]

2. gimme gimme gimme

so that I can feed and foster more terrorists.

[closeupready]

3. This is terrific - makes me wonder

why is it so hard for people in this country to understand how foreign aid helps win hearts and minds? Bombs don't do that.

[ohio2007]

5. you just keep wondering until the day you say ; "What just happened to Pakistan " ?

it is written;
"they won't survive the decade". At least not as the country we know it to be.

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/02/22/world/asia/1194838044017/class-dismissed-in-swat-valley.html

[closeupready]

6. You're really smoking some intense shit, huh?

Er, maybe you've overdosed on your big brother's video games?

:rofl:

[ohio2007]

9. you mom wants you of the computer and in bed now

oops...better not go there

your dragging me down to your level.

;)

And I'm sure you'll beat me with your expirence.

[cosmicone]

11. Foreign aid to Pakistan is like feeding a poisonous snake...

it only boosts the poison production

[ohio2007]

4. The ISI will be pleased nt

[closeupready]

7. Hey - Way! to Go! Ohio!

I WENT BACK TO OHIO
BUT MY CITY WAS GONE
THERE WAS NO TRAIN STATION
THERE WAS NO DOWNTOWN
SOUTH HOWARD HAD DISAPPEARED
ALL MY FAVORITE PLACES
MY CITY HAD BEEN PULLED DOWN
REDUCED TO PARKING SPACES
A, O, WAY TO GO OHIO

:rofl: :D

[ohio2007]

8. You like that ? The Japanese will loan them $ to rebuild the 300 all girl schools and guess what ?

The Taliban will do the same thing they did in Afghanistan

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/05/taliban-bans-education-for-girls-in-pakistans-swat



naw

it'll never happen since it's the japanese .

They won't get any treatment more favorable then the Koreans got in Afghanistan

[closeupready]

10. This post tells me all I need to about your lack of knowledge with regard to

historically friendly Japanese/Pakistani relations. Go back to your video games. You're better at that.

[ohio2007]

13. So. What do you think about that $ now after two weeks time ?

Do you guys think Taliban was given concessions in exchange?
In exchange for the withdrawal, that is. Invaders never leave a territory unless defeated or given concessions.

The article says nothing about the reasons.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3846983&mesg_id=3847137


As the original linked article states, that Japanese aid is going to areas "ripe" with radicalism.

go back to your 'magazines' in your 'royal chamber'
:hurts:

[JayMusgrove]

12. Can I apply for $1 billion in aid? After all...

I am unable to control the fascists who post on the Free Republic, and they can reach hundreds with one post.

I need to make sure I can live out my life as a freedom loving American, and the Freepers seem to be threatening it.

Japan, one billion to defeat the Freepers, please? DU and I could really use it.