Washington: Top US senators on Tuesday said that Pakistan should get $1.1 billion funds as the country has reopened crucial Nato supply lines to Afghanistan.
A major obstacle to releasing the money was removed last week when Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton apologized to Pakistan for the killing of 24 Pakistani troops last fall and Pakistan, in return, agreed to reopen the overland supply lines to US-led coalition forces.
Congress has already approved the money to reimburse Pakistan for counterterrorism operations, but it has been on hold for some six months.
Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Michigan, a Democrat and one of the panel’s top Republicans, Lindsey Graham, said the money should be released, albeit reluctantly.
”They don’t deserve it. What they’ve done is presumably earned it by the amount of money they’ve laid out in terms of their anti-terrorist activity and protecting our lines,” Levin told a group of reporters.
He said he would vote to approve the release.
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