Listen Afghan, look into your own collar first before discussing Pakistan:
The money committed by the US to Afghanistan for reconstruction alone is $100 Billion(2002-2014), this dwarfs the total aid given to Pakistan since 1948 which stands at $61.7 Billion.
AFGHANISTAN:
The fact remains, however, that if the CRS and OMB figures for FY2001-FY2013 that
follow are totaled for all direct spending on the war, they reach
$641.7 billion, of
which
$198.2 billion – or over 30% – will be spent in FY2012 and FY2013. This is an
incredible amount of money to have spent with so few controls, so few plans, so
little auditing, and almost no credible measures of effectiveness.
Source:
http://csis.org/files/publication/120515_US_Spending_Afghan_War_SIGAR.pdf
And then, in that same report, the GAO cited several embarrassing miscarriages:
- For $130,000, Afghan contractors built a large shower/bathroom facility “without holes in the walls or floors for plumbing and drains.” What’s more, the walls were constructed of “crumbling cinder blocks.” The report blamed insufficient oversight. That was most certainly true. But in addition, UNICEF statistics show that seventy percent of Afghans have no access to a toilet and may in fact never have seen one. How could they know what’s involved in installing them?
- Defense Department personnel told the GAO about “a dining facility in Afghanistan that was built without a kitchen,” once again because of absent oversight.
- A guard tower “at a forward operating base was poorly constructed and unsafe to occupy. The staircase was unstable and not strong enough” to climb. As usual, the problem wasn’t discovered until the tower was finished. “It had to be torn down.”
- “In another instance, an entire compound of five buildings was built in the wrong location.” It was supposed to be located within the military base’s security walls, but the contractors inexplicably built the compound just outside—for $2.4 million. No one noticed until the project was completed. “The buildings could not be used.”
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PAKISTAN:
Total aid Pakistan has received since 1948:
The data is compiled by Wren Elhai of the
Center for Global Development in Washington, DC. The database reveals that since 1948 the US assistance to Pakistan has largely been for civilian purposes. Of the
$61.7 billion in total assistance (in constant 2009 dollars) provided to Pakistan between 1948 and 2010, $40.4 billion were provided for economic assistance and $21.3 billion in military assistance. The economic assistance to Pakistan peaked in the early 60s when in excess of $2 billion annually were provided to Pakistan.
-Source: Guardian
-Source: Pakistan Economic Survey: 2010-11.
* The 2010-11 figures are estimated from 8 months of data.
The nature of development aid business is such that large sums of donated money in fact return to the donor country in the form of contractual payments to consultants and manufacturers.