The US has provided since 2002. A little more than two-thirds of that went to military use, the remainder to civilian.
The biggest ticket item, at $8.9 billion, is something called 鈥淐oalition Support Funds.鈥� These are reimbursements for Pakistan鈥檚 military assistance in the war on terror.
The second largest chunk, $4.8 billion, falls under 鈥淓conomic Support Funds.鈥� Most of this has gone to shore up the government鈥檚 budget, either as revenue or to pay off debt to the US.
Much less is spent on seemingly major US priorities: The Frontier Corps, the Pakistani force doing most of the fighting, has received $100 million. Antiterrorism and nuclear nonproliferation efforts: $90 million.
鈥淥ne of the things we should be doing is training the police, but we鈥檙e not doing it.... Pakistanis are not letting us. They want the Army to do everything,鈥� says C. Christine Fair, assistant professor at Georgetown University in Washington.
