Denmark to Give USD 28 Million to Pakistan, RTT News, 13 January 2010
EXCERPT: "Denmark announced Monday it would provide USD 28 million, an increase by USD 20 million, in aid to Pakistan during 2010-2012 for rebuilding the latter's schools and infrastructure destroyed by military operations in the militancy-affected Malakand area and the tribal belt bordering Afghanistan. Development Co-operation Minister Ulla Tornaes said after talks with Shaukat Tarin, Pakistan's Minister for Finance, that her government would increase its development assistance to the Islamic country to support early recovery and reconstruction work in violence-ravaged areas. She said her visit to Islamabad was also to convey her government's support to Pakistan in the latter's war against terror and that the two countries were united to fight this war. Tornaes told the media, during a visit to a camp set up at Jalozai in Noshwera district for people displaced by military operations against the Taliban, that her country was committed through the Friends of Democratic Pakistan to do its best to assist it in combating radicalization and terrorism, and support Pakistan people in the struggle."
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