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| Pakistan Gets $336M to Support Forces in Afghanistan | |
| 2015-07-29 | |
[AnNahar] Pakistain on Tuesday received some $336 million from the United States for its ongoing role in combating a Taliban insurgency in neighboring Afghanistan.
Regular payments to Pakistain under the Coalition Support Fund (CSF) program began in 2001 when Pakistain joined the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan as a "frontline ally." Pakistain provides use of its air bases and other facilities in exchange for the reimbursements. The central State Bank of Pakistain (SBP) in a one-line press note said it had received a total of $336.8 million under the CSF program, which is the first tranche of a $1.5 billion for the current fiscal year ending June 2016. Pakistain has received a total of $13 billion in CSF payments since the program began. U.S.-led NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... forces ended their combat mission in Afghanistan in December, leaving local forces to battle hard boyz alone, but a 13,000-strong residual force remains for training and counter-terrorism operations. The Afghan government meanwhile conducted its first face-to-face talks with Taliban cadres on July 7 in a Pak hill station, aimed at ending the 14-year insurgency. But despite the willingness to engage in talks there has been no let-up in Death Eater attacks, which are taking a heavy toll on civilians. Almost 1,000 non-combatants were killed in the conflict during the first four months of this year, a sharp jump from the same period last year, according to the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... . | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 more funding for the Taliban/jihadists fighting the afghan govt. |
| Posted by: paul 2015-07-29 17:30 |