Source: International Herald Tribune
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Pakistan is turning to Saudi Arabia for financial aid to ease an economic crisis that already has forced the militancy-wracked South Asian nation to start talks with the International Monetary Fund.
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari arrives Tuesday in the oil-rich Arab nation to request a deferral on oil payments and […]

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Source: Daily Times 
Patterson says money is transferred to Finance Ministry rather than to security forces
KARACHI: The United States has been providing almost a billion dollars annually to reimburse Pakistan for its fight against militancy since 2001, US Ambassador to Pakistan Anne W Patterson said on Thursday.
Talking to members of the Management Association of Pakistan (MAP), […]

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Source: Yahoo Malaysia
Japan’s foreign minister offered assistance Saturday to Pakistan’s newly elected government in its fight against terrorism, the Pakistani prime minister’s office said
Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura, who is on a two-day visit to Pakistan, made the offer during talks with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in the capital, Islamabad, Gilani’s office said in a […]

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Source: Pakistan Think Tank
By Ishrat Husain             
A spate of editorials, articles, columns and reports emanating from the United States in the last few months have vehemently argued that continuation of  U.S. assistance to Pakistan should be made conditional upon the progress in the achievement of U.S.’s strategic goals in the region.  The resonance of these assertions […]

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