US Economic Support Funds used to cancel Pakistan's debt to the US

G-AID-05 · gap-foreign-aid

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Congress authorized Pakistan to use the FY2003 and FY2004 ESF allocations to cancel a total of $1.5 billion in debt to the U.S. government — US Economic Support Funds used to cancel Pakistan's debt to the US · FY2003-FY2004Congressional Research Service, Direct Overt U.S. Aid Appropriations for and Military Reimbursements to Pakistan, FY2002-FY2020 (12 March 2019), via EveryCRSReport · FY2003-FY2004Source named — not yet verified

Source

Congressional Research Service, Direct Overt U.S. Aid Appropriations for and Military Reimbursements to Pakistan, FY2002-FY2020 (12 March 2019), via EveryCRSReport — https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/20190312_ZZZ25B97F35E5366F42_f66f5cbb24cd9df9f73c7e86979e88872cd92d15.html. Matched to the source page by an automated research pass on 6 Oct 2026; not yet checked by a person..

What it proves

Aid can ease the debt burden directly: post-2001 US support wrote off $1.5 billion of Pakistan's bilateral debt.

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