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The US Congress this week may approve tough new restrictions on military aid to Pakistan, which has decried similar curbs on economic assistance as undermining its sovereignty. According to a foreign news agency, the fresh limits include efforts to track where US military hardware sent to Pakistan ends up, as well as a warning that US aid to Pakistan must not upset the balance of power in the region -- a reference to tensions with India. The limits are in a 680-billion-dollar US Defense Department spending measure for 2010 that the Senate will take up after the bill cleared the House of Representatives in a 281-146 vote on October 8. Democratic Senator Robert Menendez and Republican Senator Bob Corker crafted the new restrictions.
