Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Craig Cohen, a fellow with the CSIS Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project, was quoted by the Washington Post, "U.S. Payments to Pakistan Face New Scrutiny."
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Craig Cohen, a fellow with the CSIS Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project, was quoted by the Washington Post, "U.S. Payments to Pakistan Face New Scrutiny."
Once a month, Pakistan's Defense Ministry delivers 15 to 20 pages of spreadsheets to the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad. They list costs for feeding, clothing, billeting and maintaining 80,000 to 100,000 Pakistani troops in the volatile tribal area along the Afghan border, in support of U.S. counterterrorism efforts.
"My sense is that the Pakistani military would not be out on the border if not for the Coalition Support Funds. That's the baseline cost of getting them out on a mission that is really our mission," said Craig Cohen, a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the author of a recent study on U.S.-Pakistan relations.
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