The Blair and Brown cash givaway

UK to give $910m for madrassas, poverty

* Total funding will cover the period between UK financial year 2008-09 and 2010-11

Staff Report

ISLAMABAD: Britain will provide financial assistance of $910 million to Pakistan to reduce poverty, reform madrassas and improve the delivery of health and sanitation services and clean water.

The commitment was made under an agreement called the ‘Long Term Development Partnership Arrangement’ signed after one-on-one and delegation level meetings between Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and his British counterpart Tony Blair at Prime Minister’s House.

Under the agreement, the UK Department For International Development (DFID) will provide Pakistan $201 million in the UK financial year 2007-08. The total funding of $910 million will cover the period between UK financial year 2008-09 and financial year 2010-11. Much of the cash will go towards promoting President Gen Musharraf’s policy of “enlightened moderation” in madrassas that have been blamed for radicalising Muslim youths, including visiting Britons. The assistance under the agreement includes financial aid, technical cooperation for capacity development, support through international organisations or civil society organisations and other forms of development assistance.

The agreement aims at helping Pakistan meet the Millennium Development Goals for reducing poverty and strengthening financial management and accountability to reduce the risk of misuse of funds. Aziz later told a press conference the grant from the UK government would help Pakistan achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Blair told a press conference in Lahore that some $38 million would be released immediately to help tackle poverty in Pakistan.
This an additional cost, on top of the £5,000,000,000 ($9,485,702,716) spent on the Iraq war so far, and the £1,000,000,000 ($1,897,302,733) which has been spent on the military situation in Afghanistan.

The funding news came shortly after Blair had said on Al Jazeera television that the invasion of Iraq (which took place on March 19, 2003) had been a "disaster".

David Davies, Tory MP for Monmouth, said of Blair's decision to waste taxpayers money on Pakistani madrassas: "He does not seem to have grasped the fact that these people are not motivated by money. They are motivated by extremist religious ideology."

The Mahdi says......ALLAH has blinded the senses of the infidel leaders, his own people pay the jizya tax and are humiliated on a daily basis.