FOR PAKISTAN This is in response to an article titled “Pakistan’s Selective Fight against Terrorism Threatens U.S. Security Goals in South Asia” published by the Heritage Foundation on March 27. Heritage Foundation is a U.S. based think tank promoting conservative public policies and a strong national defense. Their dubious standard of research can be judged by the fact that the think tank gained prominence in 2013 for releasing a report against immigration reform that said immigration legislation pending in the Senate would cost $ 6.3 trillion over 50 years as immigrants consumed federal benefits without making up for it in taxes. A similar report published in 2007 by Heritage helped sink a comprehensive immigration reform bill in the Senate by quoting the cost as $ 2.7 trillion. The report failed to account the economic benefits from immigration and was criticized by both left and right. The co-author of this disputed report came under fire due to his earlier racist claims about immigrants having low IQs and how they should be kept out of the country.
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