WASHINGTON (Pajhwok): The US President, Barack Obama, on Friday signed into law the $618 billion annual defence budget – the National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA) 2017 – which among other things authorised $3.4 billion for Afghan security forces and conditions $400 of the $900 million of funding to Pakistan.
NDAA-2017 authorises $3.4 billion for the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund to preserve the gains of the last 15 years and continue to degrade and defeat terrorist organizations with transnational operational reach . . .
