US to pay Pakistan $300 million for fighting militants

[The Straight Story]

US to pay Pakistan $300 million for fighting militants

KARACHI — Pakistan is likely to get $300 million from the United States for costs incurred in fighting militants, officials said on Thursday, at a time U.S. legislators have been questioning aid to Pakistan after Osama bin Laden was found there.

The funds are part of a so-called Coalition Support Fund (CSF), a U.S. program to reimburse countries that have incurred costs supporting counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency operations.

"Pakistan should receive $300 million soon," said a Pakistani finance official who declined to be identified.

The United States has reimbursed Pakistan $7.4 billion under the CSF program since 2001, when Pakistan joined the U.S.-led campaign against militancy. Funds that come in through the CSF are not officially designated as U.S. foreign aid.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43001186/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/

[Autumn]

1. Payment for protecting bin Laden all these

years.:puke:

[asjr]

2. Easiest money Pakistan has ever

made. Promise to help us, screw us big time and blackmail us. We have become the host with the most.

[DrDan]

3. the coalition of the bought-and-paid-for