US to pay Pakistan $300 million for fighting militants

[WestVirginiaRebel]

MSNBC:

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.

Some U.S. lawmakers have questioned whether Pakistan was serious about fighting militants after U.S. special forces found and killed al-Qaida leader bin Laden in a Pakistani town near the capital on May 2.

Some of them have called for a suspension of aid but the U.S. administration has stressed the importance of maintaining cooperation with the uneasy ally in the interests of battling militancy and bringing stability to neighboring Afghanistan.
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Our fair-weather friends still need to get paid...

[Evad]

What if this was just a rope-a-dope version of find-a-bama..err, I mean find-a-sama.

[Pepper]

Evad!

Exactly. They sat on him for years and years. Like that scavenger game of hot and cold. This was pure rope a dope.

[Valin]

Evad!

Exactly. They sat on him for years and years. Like that scavenger game of hot and cold. This was pure rope a dope.