The United States should suspend all assistance to Pakistan.

I affirm the resolution: Resolved: The United States should suspend all assistance to Pakistan.Nothing in the resolution mentions what will come after aid is suspended. However, I claim that the United States, after suspension of aid, will try its best to maintain a good relationship within Pakistan.Contention one: Pakistan actively supports terrorist networks. Pakistan’s ISI supports numerous militant groups which it deems beneficial to its own interests. Such interests range from the destabilization of Afghanistan to terrorist attacks against India.From the Center of Strategic and International Studies: (http://csis.org...)“As senior US officials and officers have made all too clear... some elements of the Pakistani governance and forces are supporting groups that are actively at war with the United States and Afghanistan.”Admiral Mike Mullen, during his testimony before the Senate Armed Services CommitteeThe Haqqani network, for one, acts as a veritable arm of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency. With ISI support, Haqqani operatives plan and conducted that [September 13] truck bomb attack, as well as the assault on our embassy. We also have credible evidence they were behind the June 28th attack on the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul and a host of other smaller but effective operations....From the NATO Report: State of the Taliban, on support for the Taliban: (http://www.nytimes.com...)“ISI is thoroughly aware of Taliban activities and the whereabouts of all senior Taliban personnel. The Haqqani family, for example, resides immediately west of the ISI office at the airfield in Miram Shah...”On numerous occasions, the US has shared counterterrorism intelligence with Pakistani government, with disastrous results.From the United Press International: (http://www.upi.com...)“CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell gave overhead surveillance video and other information on the guerrilla locations in mid-May to Pakistani army chief and head of the Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency, officials told The Washington Post... when Pakistani troops raided the sites in North and South Waziristan June 4, they found them abandoned.A top Pakistani officer said Friday the Americans also had identified other sites, including weapons depots, that were found empty.”From “The Ally from Hell”: (http://www.theatlantic.com...)Overall, “The past two U.S. National Intelligence Estimates on Pakistan—which represent the consensus views of America’s 16 spy agencies—concluded that Pakistani support for jihadist groups has increased over the past several years.”A large portion of the aid to Pakistan is given with the intent of fighting terror. Consequently, continuing to fund a government that is working against our interests is both self-defeating and morally unacceptable.Contention two: Aid to Pakistan breeds anti-U.S. sentiment. Subpoint A: Drone Strikes: From CNN: (http://articles.cnn.com...)“Despite the massive U.S. aid program, a poll by the Pew Research Center last June found that 68% of Pakistanis saw the US as an enemy, while only 6% considered it a friend.” This is largely due to civilian casualties from drone strikes. Numbers for such casualties vary, with some studies (http://archives.dawn.com...) finding over 700 civilian casualties in the space a year, and New America Foundation (http://counterterrorism.newamerica.net...) finding between 293 and 471 in total. A study from the AIRRA (http://www.nytimes.com...), surveying 550 professional people living in the areas hardest hit by drone strikes, found that roughly 4 in 10 said they increased Anti-Americanism. A similar poll done by Al Jazeera (http://www.aljazeera.com...), among 2,500 men and women, found that only 9% favor the drone strikes, while 67% oppose.From Giles Dorronsoro, and expert on foreign relations: (http://carnegieendowment.org...)“The mere presence of foreign soldiers fighting a war in Afghanistan is probably the single most important factor in the resurgence of the Taliban.”While the quote may be describing Afghanistan, it also pertains to Pakistan. However, instead of simply being inside of Pakistan and launching drones, the US is also killing innocent civilians and refusing to acknowledge the casualties. Such logic explains the finding from the Belfer Center (http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu...) that “far from having reduced, Islamist extremism in Pakistan has risen.”Subpoint B: Economic aid: Rather than improve the image of the US, recent focus on economic and development aid has damaged it.From the Belfer Center, on current conditions:“In some parts, the US is unpopular. Some aid agencies have found it counterproductive to reveal that the development programs are funded by the US. In these cases, they are administered anonymously.”As will be discussed more in-depth in my third contention, most aid to Pakistan is ineffective, and is never actually delivered. This leads to a general sense of distrust among the Pakistani civilians when they never receive their assistance.From the New York Times: (http://www.nytimes.com...)“Instead of polishing the tarnished image of America with a suspicious, even hostile, Pakistani public and government, the plan has resulted in bitterness and a sense of broken promises.Even when small amounts of aid make it through, the result is the same."Pakistanis see the aid as a crude attempt to buy friendship and an effort to alleviate antipathy toward the US drone attacks"Contention 3: Aid money is poorly managed.Money routed through the Pakistani government is subject to much corruption.From the Belfer Center: “The Pakistani military did not use most of the funds for the agreed objective of fighting terror. Pakistan bought much conventional military equipment. Examples include F-16s, aircraft-mounted armaments, anti-ship and antimissile defense systems, and an air defense radar system costing $200 million."“The great majority of the Coalition Support Funds given by the United States to reimburse Pakistan for counterterrorism operations was reportedly diverted to the Ministry of Finance, with only $300 million reaching the Army in the financial year ending 2008."Even money from recent reform bills has yet to be disbursed, due to the government being unable to find un-corrupt areas to spend it on.From the New York Times: (http://www.nytimes.com...) "In a scathing report, the Government Accountability Office said that only $179.5 million of the first $1.5 billion of the five-year program had been disbursed by last December.""Another big goal for the $1.5 billion was to reconstruct schools in the Swat Valley... Of 115 schools that the aid agency promised to rebuild, none have been completed."Even in areas where aid money can be disbursed, local government corruption quickly puts it to waste. Schools that are built remain unused, wasting every penny spent on them.From Dawn: (http://archives.dawn.com...)"Hundreds of schools in the rural areas remain disused and the teachers there do not appear for work or have outsourced their jobs in connivance with district officials against the payment of some part of their salaries."With every penny of money given to Pakistan being thrown away, it is only logical to suspend aid and stop the waste.Notes: I mostly use direct quotes, however, as this was a Public Forum case, I have removed words such as "for example." Simply use ctrl+F to find the quote.