Archive for January, 2009

Project:fighting terrorism

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

When the National Reconstruction Bureau was formed in 1999, a friend remarked that now the Government of Pakistan also has an NGO funded by international donors. However ,it seems now the biggest project that the GOP is running is Project : fighting terrorism for which it spends money and gets reimbursed by the Government of America.
In NGO jargon, we can say that the Pakistan Army is the Executing Agency while the Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) has been signed between Government of Pakistan and America. A bill of $ 156 billion was sent but it was found that $55million were not spend according to the project guidelines so that amount was not reimbursed.
Thus the GOP and the Pakistan Army is now experiencing the same disappointment that NGOs experience when their bills are not “cleared” by the “donor.”

Everyone for themselves

Thursday, January 1st, 2009