WASHINGTON: A legislation, which would triple non-military aid to Pakistan for the next one decade and would impose greater accountability on security assistance will be reintroduced in the US Senate in coming weeks, powerful Senator and its co-sponsor John Kerry has said.
"We would be introducing it (the legislation) somewhere in the next weeks," Senator John Kerry, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told PTI.
The legislation called the Kerry-Lugar bill, is an updated and revised version of the Biden-Lugar Bill, which lapsed in the previous Congress and will triple military aid to Pakistan to USD 1.5 billion.
Senator Richard Lugar, the Ranking Republican member of the committee has been its co-sponsor on both the occasions.
The previous version of the bill was sponsored by Lugar and Joseph Biden, who is now the US Vice President. When the bill was introduced in the Senate in July 2008, Biden was the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Kerry said the new legislation is an improved version of the Biden-Lugar bill. "We are looking at a number of things," he said, without specifying it.
"We are looking at issues, we are looking at delivery of Government services and (want to) make certain that we are leveraging the right kind of policies and to the right amount of money," Kerry said.
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