The U.S. is releasing $1.6 Billion in Aid to Pakistan

The U.S. has quietly decided to release more than $1.6 billion in military and economic aid to Pakistan that was suspended when relations between the two countries disintegrated over the covert raid that killed Usama bin Laden and deadly U.S. airstrikes against Pakistani soldiers. 

Officials and congressional aides said ties have improved enough to allow the money to flow again. 

American and NATO supply routes to Afghanistan are open. Controversial U.S. drone strikes are down. The U.S. and Pakistan recently announced the restart of their "strategic dialogue" after a long pause. Pakistan's new prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, is traveling to Washington for talks this coming week with President Barack Obama.

You should see how many of these guys can squeeze into

a phone booth.

But in a summer dominated by foreign policy debates over the coup in Egypt and chemical weapons attacks in Syria, the U.S. hasn't promoted its revamped aid relationship with Pakistan. Neither has Pakistan. 

The silence reflects the lingering mutual suspicions between the two. 

The Pakistanis do not like being seen as dependent on their heavy-handed partners. The Americans are uncomfortable highlighting the billions provided to a government that is plagued by corruption and perceived as often duplicitous in fighting terrorism.

Former Pakistan resident Osama bin Laden and his

compound.. If he had lived any closer to the authorities

there, they would have heard him snoring.

Congress has cleared most of the money, and it should start moving early next year, officials and congressional aides said. 

Over three weeks in July and August, the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development informed Congress that it planned to restart a wide range of assistance, mostly dedicated to helping Pakistan fight terrorism. The U.S. sees that effort as essential as it withdraws troops from neighboring Afghanistan next year and tries to leave a stable government behind. 

Other funds focus on a range of items, including help for Pakistani law enforcement and a multibillion-dollar dam in disputed territory

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We open aid back up to Pakistan WITH THEIR M.O. yet we cut aid to Egypt during a period when it's new leadership is fighting Radical Islamic extremists and seem to be trying to return stability to that country and it's people....MAKES NO SENSE!

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