US lawmaker to move bill to stop aid to Pakistan

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/US-lawmaker-to-move-bill-to-stop-aid-to-Pakistan/articleshow/8164062.cms

WASHINGTON: Pakistan, exposed before the world for secretively or unwittingly hosting Osama bin Laden, is now squarely in the crosshairs of some American lawmakers and officials even as the broader US administration is struggling to stave off confrontation with its belligerent one-time ally.

Anger is running deep in Washington at what is being seen as Pakistan's perfidy of milking US aid while nurturing terrorists. On Wednesday, one lawmaker announced that he is introducing legislation that 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."

The legislation would require the state department to certify to Congress that Pakistan was not providing a sanctuary for the world's most wanted terrorist.

"Pakistan has a lot of explaining to do. It seems unimaginable that Osama bin Laden was living 1,000 yards away from a military base in a million dollar mansion built especially for him and no one in the Pakistani government knew about it. I don't buy it," Texas Congressman Ted Poe, who is introducing the legislation, said, even as the Obama administration wrestled with how to handle the Pakistan situation.