British aid 'helping fund PPP re-election campaign': report

LAHORE: The Benazir Income Support Programme is being used to buy support for the Pakistan People's Party, a leading development economist has claimed in evidence to a parliamentary inquiry, reports the Telegraph.Ehtisham Ahmad, a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics, said Britain's Department for International Development (DfID) was pouring money into a scheme riven by "clientelism". "It is not stolen to the extent to which previous cash transfers were stolen, but this is the mecha... more

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