WASHINGTON, Feb 24 (APP): U.S. Senator Richard Lugar, a seasoned member of powerful Foreign Relations Committee, has voiced the confidence in early progress towards a landmark legislation that would authorize at least $ 1.5 billion annually in economic development assistance for Pakistan over 10 years. “We want to show to the Pakistani people that the United States attaches importance to their economic uplift,” he told APP.
| The Republican senator, who last year co‑sponsored the bill with the then Senate Committee chairman and now U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden, was hopeful of reintroduction of the measure in the chamber in the near future. Senator John Kerry, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator Lugar, the Ranking Member, are working on the measure, which is now to be commonly known as Kerry‑Lugar Act. |
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