Bush administration will fight for aid to Pakistan - International Herald Tribune

The U.S. secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, said Tuesday that the Bush administration would fight efforts to curb billions of dollars in U.S. aid to Pakistan while warning President Pervez Musharraf that he must support and promote democracy.

Ahead of talks with Musharraf in Switzerland on Wednesday - the highest-level face-to-face U.S. contact with the Pakistani leader since the assassination last month of the opposition leader Benazir Bhutto - Rice said it was critical that February legislative elections be fre