Has US Aid Helped Pakistan? - Imran Khan

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/01/25/Elections_vs__Democracy_Post-Bhutto_Pakistan

Pakistani activist, politician and former cricket star Imran Khan argues that acceptance of U.S. financial and political support has had mostly negative effects for his country.

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Elections vs. Democracy: Post-Bhutto Pakistan and the International Community with discussant Imran Khan, the World Cup cricketer turned political activist and opponent of military rule in Pakistan. Ali Ahsan, associate officer in the executive office of the U.N. Secretary-General, provides commentary.

With the assassination of Benazir Bhutto at the end of 2007, an already turbulent country in the front lines of many of the international community's most pressing concerns - terrorism, nuclear weapons, development, and democracy - was thrown into even greater political turmoil. Parliamentary elections have been rescheduled to February 18, but will elections signify democratic change? And what are the stakes for the international community? - The Century Foundation

Imran Khan is Chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek‐e‐Insaf Party (Movement for Justice). A former cricket legend, Mr. Khan was international cricketer of the year in 1989‐1990 and led Pakistan to a World Cup victory in 1992. He transitioned into politics in 1996 and is now an outspoken political opponent of the military regime led by Pervez Musharraf.

Born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1952, he earned degrees in economics and politics at Kebel College of Oxford University.

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[saleemnajar]

Imrah Bhai well said. US is playing game with pakistan to make dispute among muslims. Parvez Musharraf was first Victm

[ramlundful]

u r very very right.

[meinIndus]

Nice try by a Hindu Indian pretending to be an Englishman(0001yorkie) to spread propaganda against Pakistanis while complimenting Indians in Britian who "intergrate". Here is an example of Indian integration into British society. This is a news video about British Indians using the donations of unsuspecting people to fund Indian extremist group, the RSS /a4Ku72vLYj0 (How Hindu RSS Terrorists gets funds from UK 1 ) Like vultures, these people benefit from a clash between the West and Muslims

[LatinaQueen3638]

@0001yorkie We never stopped giving them aid, i wish we would they don't deserve one penny, Fuck them

[0001yorkie]

now usa has stopped giving aid to these uneducated savages can britain do the same stand with the usa . we could always repatriate these brilliant assetts that plague our inner cities send them all back they will never be english .the only time a pakistani is english is when he is claiming benefits, billions of pounds paid to these worthless limb amputaters women surpressors differant culture totally alien to ours ,work shy spongers .they should look at indian people get on & intergrate

[cuteamyn]

@mpingola wrong you dumbass . pakistan has nothing to do with india. just fucking hold a refrendom in kashmir and we are done.

[manhornz]

lol, even by the governments admission $65 billion has been lost on top of thousands of lives for $20 billion in "AID"

Foreign AID is the absolute shit - you can take loans (which you will pay back) to create industry that will increase exports of value added products and decrease imports but do not take AID - this is why Africa is so messed up.

Insha'allah Imran Khan wins the next election - he is probably the only untainted voice in our nation and a true Pakistani.

[mpingola]

@732ChMartel thats what we Indians have been wondering for years...we had a heart-attack when we heard you gave them f-16's and apache copters and m1 tanks,all their aid goes to the military,their government has only ONE agenda,and that is to destroy India....every week they "threaten" India of nuclear attack.

They have gone from 60 nukes to 100 in the last 3 years.

Tell me this..is the USA building a strategic base in pakistan to keep a eye on China?

[juventar]

where is the US and Other foreign aid to Pakistan is spent. Why arent the Aid contributor asking for an audit.

Answer is simple, The Aid goes to the Pakistan army directly, and not to Pakistani people. The Aider have bought the Army with their so called aid.

[732ChMartel]

Nothing ever seems to change when dealing with Muslims. We give tribute (jizyah) to bribe them into cooperating with us

& then we find out they haven't been doing as much as they could. Do we give this money to help arm a country that already has nuclear weapons, in the hopes that they won't ever use them? They'll just use that money to build an even larger nuclear arsenal & be more threatening to infidels. They're already using it to threaten one of our allies, India. (Continued below)

[732ChMartel]

It's the same mentality & deviousness that Jefferson encountered with the N. African Moslems who were exacting tribute for centuries from Europe, & later, America. Don't our elected leaders have the competence to avoid being taken for fools?

All the more reason to require politicians to pass credentialing examinations in the areas of history, economics, constitutional law, etc.

Right now, I think most of them would completely fail a test in world history.