Pakistans strategic interest is best served by stability in afghanistan. Clearly observed in those instinct two has been the pakistans strategic instinct is served by instability in pakistan and that cant be helpful. Theres a key role to play in developing its own security and that of afghanistan in terms of the taliban so how important is it going to be for pakistan to really take seriously conversations with their own taliban but also to refuse to provide safe havens for the Afghan Taliban and . As you see say two separate organizations and of course how the Pakistan Government chooses to engage with the pakistani and taliban and i think the current approach would probably best be described as a judicious mixture of carrot and stick. It is an issue for them but to the extent that the ttp Pakistan Taliban Pakistani Taliban are being able to find safe haven on the afghan side of the border i think it must be clear that moves by the pakistani authorities probably coordinated to control
Not being able to access a primary care physician. Funding for the National Health service corps. The president budget was very generous. It provides death Debt Forgiveness for medical School Graduates who are serving in underserved areas. What kinds of programs does the v. A. Have in terms of Debt Forgiveness or whatever it may be to attract primary care physicians to handle the problems that center more and raised . Moran raised. I will talk specifically about Debt Forgiveness. We have a Retention Bonuses and recruitment bonuses. That allowe buyouts people to make a move. We have quite a bit of flexibility in terms of salary. Are competitive and flexible. That could be higher. I will just be blunt. There are not many instances where you need to do that. The cost is not particularly extensive. It can be a great incentive who is carrying up to hundred thousand dollars worth of educational debt coming out of college and medical school to be able to have a good portion of that forgiven.
Cspan, created by americas cae companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. Host steven ran roque l, what is a u. S. Chief Information Officer do . Guest well, the u. S. Chief Information Officer wears a few hats. One is sets the budget for the technology span of the executive branch, so it covers all the agencies of government and the department of defense to think about and form late the president s budget every year and do that. The second thing is through the egovernment act that we have in the u. S. , the u. S. Chief Information Officer has the ability to set policy, Statutory Authority to set policy government wide with. So thinking about, you know, visionary view of Technology Use in government and driving that forward as part of the, part of the, what we do. And then the third is and this is really under this administration the u. S. Chief Information Officer, a title and role created by president obama acts as an adviser to the president a
Were talking about syria. Were expecting to hear from the white house any minute. Youre taking a look at the press briefing room, reporters likely to push for answers on what is the administrations plan here to respond to the chemical weapons attack which president obama blames squarely on the Syrian Government . Jill dougherty is standing by at the white house and, jill, i want to ask you a couple questions here. First of all, we heard from the president. He says no doubt the assad regime used chemical weapons on its own people here. He will be Briefing Members of Congress Later in the evening. What do we expect to hear from the president today . Well, we may not hear anything specifically publicly. This, they have presented at least they have this intelligence estimate, this i should say Intelligence Report that musters whatever evidence they have that the regime as they would argue did use chemical weapons. Theyre presenting that to the members of congress. This would be presumably