Aid for Pakistan conditioned with Hillarys certification

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The secretary of state will have to confirm that Pakistan was unaware of Osamas presence.

06 May,2011 12:27 pm

US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has been asked to certify that Pakistan had no prior knowledge of Osama’s compound. The US aid to Pakistan will depend on the clearance certificate from Hilary Clinton.Congressman Ted Poe tabled the Pakistan Foreign Aid Accountability Act in the US House of Representatives.The legislation will prohibit any foreign aid from being sent to Pakistan until it can demonstrate that it had no knowledge of Osama Bin Laden’s whereabouts. This legislation would require the State Department to certify to Congress that Pakistan was unaware of the presence of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad.The US secretary of state will have to confirm for the continuation of aid delivery to Pakistan that the country was serious in its efforts to eliminate terrorism and was acting against high value targets. The similar conditioned were also imposed in Kerry-Lugar bill. Meanwhile, a top Pentagon official has said that the United States has no concrete evidence that the Pakistani establishment had information about the hideout used by Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad.