President Barack Obama plans to propose spending roughly $2.8 billion in aid for Pakistans military as he steps up the campaign to battle extremists along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. This money would be in addition to the civilian aid--$1.5 billion a year for five years.
The US President called for on Friday under a legislation being introduced soon by the Chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John Kerry. A defence official told Fox News channel that the money under the new program would be dedicated exclusively to "equipping, training, and building infrastructure directly related to counter-insurgency operations."
General David Petraeus, Central Command Chief, told the channel in an interview on Monday that the plan would be called Pakistani Counter-insurgency Capability Fund. The money would be distributed over five years, with the first $400 million of it added to the fiscal year 2009 supplemental request for war fighting. Another $700 million would be in the fiscal year 2010 base budget. Then $575 million would be spent each year from fiscal year 2011 through 2013.