WASHINGTON – The United States Congress has finally passed the 2017 National Defence Authorization Act, which includes $1.1 billion for reimbursing the nations supporting US military operations in Afghanistan.
The largest chunk from this amount, $900 million, is available for reimbursement to Pakistan but almost half of it, $400m, has been put out of its reach. To get those $400m, Pakistan will have to get a ‘good conduct’ certificate from the US defence secretary.
Passed by the Senate by 92 to seven votes on Thursday and by the House of Representatives by 375 to 34 votes last week, the bill now goes to the White House for President Barack Obama to sign it into law.