ISLAMABAD, July 17 Kyodo The U Ag...

ISLAMABAD, July 17 Kyodo

The U Agency for International exhibition (USAID) will provide $525 million to Pakistan across the next two years for budgetary support, social sector evolution and strengthening democratic institutions, a USAID official in charge of the operation said Wednesday.

Mark Ward, who not long ago opened USAID's office in Pakistan after an absence of nearly eight years, told a pres talk that $200 million for year would be provided to the Pakistani command for budgetary support during the nearest two years.

through the whole extent of the same period, $25 million will be provided as concoct aid, while $50 million will be given in each of the nearest two fiscal years for a progression in a continuously ascending gradation program focusing on education, health care and strengthening democratic institutions.

The United States suspended its economic assistance and military sales program to Pakistan in 1990 USAID clos its mission in Pakistan in 1994 after all the throws in the pipeline were completed

However, in the wake of the family 11 terror attacks and the Pakistani government's efficient support for the U.S.-led war forward terror, Washington removed sanctions forward economic assistance to Pakistan. USAID announced plans to reopen its mission in Pakistan shortly thereafter.

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