Britain to Double Aid to Pakistan

This is insane! Since 2002, the US government has given Pakistan $11 billion to help Pakistan fight terrorists. Pakistan has taken no substantial actions against the terrorists freely operating within it's territories. Now Britain is set to increase it's aid to Pakistan to a total of £480m ($956m) over the next three years. BBC

Britain is substantially increasing its aid to Pakistan and outlining a new strategy for how it is spent.

International Development Minister Douglas Alexander is in Islamabad to announce that aid will double to £480m ($956m) over the next three years.

The move comes amid British security concerns over growing Islamic militancy in the country.

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The increase will make Pakistan second only to India as the recipient of the UK's largest aid programme worldwide.

The BBC's Barbara Plett in Islamabad says the move reflects at least in part London's concern about the influence of Islamic militancy on Britons of Pakistani origin and its impact on British troops fighting over the border in Afghanistan.

New emphasis

The aid - first agreed in 2006 - will continue to focus on poverty reduction and improving health care.

But for the first time it will be extended to the tribal areas along the border, which serve as a base for militants linked to the Taleban and al-Qaeda.

There is also a new emphasis on education, apparently to try and counter the influence of extremist versions of Islam taught in some Islamic schools, or madrassas.