Washington: The US Senate has passed a $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package for fiscal 2023 and it includes $200 million for strengthening democracy and promoting gender equality programs in Pakistan. The package, includes $858 billion for defence, $787bn for non-defence domestic programmes and over $15bn for other programmes.

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