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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/20/us-pakistan-usa-aid-idUSTRE74J27P20110520
Looks like it was not the country as a whole, rather a certain province. I must say, I did not expect the Pakistanis to doing something that is hugely popular here, cutting foreign aid.
I was also surprised about how much Pakistan relies on foreign aid rather than their own tax base. Seems like much of the country is kept afloat by international aid and the IMF.
I wonder how much worse this is going to make Afghanistan's illegal immigrant problem:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2166370
Pakistan's most populous province has canceled six aid agreements with the United States in protest over the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden
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"We have canceled six MOUs (memorandums of understanding) with the United States in the fields of health, education and solid waste management," said Rana Sanaullah, Law Minister of Punjab, the country's political nerve center.
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This is our protest against the Abbottabad incident."
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One of the lowest tax-to-GDP ratio in the world of around 10 percent has increased Pakistan's reliance on foreign funds and loans, even for development projects.
Looks like it was not the country as a whole, rather a certain province. I must say, I did not expect the Pakistanis to doing something that is hugely popular here, cutting foreign aid.
I was also surprised about how much Pakistan relies on foreign aid rather than their own tax base. Seems like much of the country is kept afloat by international aid and the IMF.
I wonder how much worse this is going to make Afghanistan's illegal immigrant problem:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2166370