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<b>US fears Pak aid will feed graft</b>

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>As the United States prepares to triple its aid package to Pakistan to a proposed $1.5 billion over the next year Obama administration officials are debating how much of the assistance should go directly to a government that has been widely accused of corruption, American and Pakistani officials say.</b> A procession of Obama administration economic experts have visited Islamabad, the capital, in recent weeks to try to ensure both that the money will not be wasted by the government and that it will be more effective in winning the good will of a public increasingly hostile to the United States, according to officials involved with the project. As American lawmakers move toward passage of the aid legislation, the administration knows it must get quick results from the increased assistance or face potential Congressional cutbacks down the road in a program envisioned to cost $1.5 billion every year for the next five years. <b>“We’re struggling over how much cash to give to the government,”</b> said a senior American official involved in the planning, who declined to be named according to diplomatic custom.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

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