US Senator John Kerry, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, plans to introduce legislation as early as next week that would give Pakistan $15 billion in non-military aid over the next 10 years, reported CNSNews.com on Wednesday. The bills genesis is legislation proposed by then-committee Chairman and now-Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Richard Lugar in the 110th Congress. The Biden-Lugar bill proposed giving Pakistan $7.5 billion over five years ($1.5 billion a year) and an additional $7.5 billion over the following five years. Although the details of the Kerry-Lugar bill are still being drafted, committee staff told CNSNews.com that it will closely resemble the Biden-Lugar legislation, which cited anti-American sentiment among the Pakistani people as an obstacle to routing Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants from the countrys tribal region. A critical mass of Pakistanis regard America as a greater threat than Al-Qaeda, the draft of the Biden-Lugar bill states. Without changing this baseline, there is little likelihood of drying up popular tolerance for anti-US terrorist groups, or persuading any Pakistani regime to devote the political capital necessary to deny such groups sanctuary and covert material support. The Biden-Lugar bill said the non-military aid would build a relationship with the Pakistani people by providing money to improve the 'secular education system, build clinics, drill wells and reform the Pakistani police. The bill also asked for congressional oversight of the distribution of the non-military aid to ensure the money is used for its intended purpose. When asked by CNSNews.com if the Kerry-Lugar bill will include the same military conditions or benchmarks that call for the US State Department to certify that the Pakistani security forces are fighting to stop Al-Qaeda and the Taliban from operating in Pakistan, Frederick Jones, the Senate committees communications director, said details of the bill are still being worked out but that Kerry was committed to non-military aid. There will be benchmarks attached in terms of distribution of the non-military aid, Jones said. But the parameters of those benchmarks are still being discussed. Last year, the Biden-Lugar version of the bill was opposed by several Republicans, including Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) who objected because - as Congressional Quarterly reported - he was convinced that much of the aid the United States already sends to Pakistan is wasted, noting that the Government Accountability Office found that the oversight of Pakistan military aid is a bit sloppy.