Washington, August 22: Pakistan’s fight with extremism would have been in better shape had the United States invested more in the nation’s schools and girls and not just its military, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said.
The United States has pumped more than seven billion dollars into Pakistan’s military since the September 11, 2001 attacks, which transformed the nation from Taliban backers into frontline US ally.
In an interview with The New York Times Magazine to be published Sunday, Clinton said she had told Pakistan’s former military leader Pervez Musharraf that more of the money should be going to education.
She recalled a trip to a Pakistani village, where families hesitated to children, particularly girls, because the children would need to travel away to the closest school.
–PTI