Edited sentence: "Documents show that the Pakistan government agreed an initial budget for the weekly newspaper of £547,000.According to a memorandum dated Jan 2, 1996 the Pakistan government proposed to "covertly sponsor" the publication, with money allocated to "the Secret Fund of the High Commissioner for Pakistan in the UK as a special grant for the project".Galloway, who was in Pakistan,refused on the grounds that the girls were not his constituents.In 1997 Galloway launched a newspaper, East, focusing on Pakistan.In March 1996 Galloway was asked for help in a forced marriage case.It later transpired that the Pakistan Government was funding Galloways company Asian Voice to the tune of hundreds of thousands of pounds.Rifat and Nazia Haq had been taken to Pakistan and forced into marriage by their father