【2010－10－23】US to up Pakistani military aid by $2 billion
[p=30, 2, left]WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is laying out a new multiyear, multibillion-dollar military aid package for Pakistan as it presses the Islamabad government to step up the fight against extremists there and in neighboring Afghanistan, US officials say.[/p][p=30, 2, left]Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi were to unveil the plan Friday at the end of the latest round of high-level US-Pakistani strategic talks here, the officials said. [/p][p=30, 2, left]The money will be provided over the next five years under the State Department's Foreign Military Financing program that funds other countries' purchases of US-made arms, ammunition and accessories, the officials said. Precise details of what Pakistan will receive under the program were still being determined, they said.[/p][p=30, 2, left]The officials would speak only on condition of anonymity ahead of the announcement, which the administration hoped would reassure Pakistan of the long-term US commitment to Pakistan's military needs and help it bolster its efforts to go after Taliban and al-Qaida affiliates on its territory.[/p] is't a military aid ? i dont think so .
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