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U.S. Provides Additional Assistance To Pakistani Law Enforcement And Border Control

09/28/2006


Islamabad - U.S. Charge d’Affaires Peter Bodde and Mr. Ahmed Jawad, Additional Secretary, Economic Affairs Division, today signed three documents that provide on-going assistance to Pakistan’s law enforcement agencies. This will provide $41.2 million to bi-lateral programs designed to help strengthen Pakistani law enforcement agencies in their mission to ensure the integrity of Pakistan’s borders.

Each of the three documents signed today is a revision to a Letter of Agreement first signed by Pakistan and the United States August 31, 1982. The revisions signed today will provide 41.2 million dollars to a total of 269 million dollars already provided to support Pakistani law enforcement agencies under the original Letter of Agreement.

The major document signed today provides $36,320,000 to support three on-going projects:

  • Border Security ($24,320,000). This includes support to aviation training for the Frontier Corps Anti-Narcotics Forces (ANF); commodity support to the Frontier Corps Balochistan and NWFP; and road construction in the FATA.
  • Law Enforcement Reforms and Capacity Building ($5,000,000). This will help build investigative capacity of the Pakistani Police Department, including establishment of a forensic laboratory and creation of a criminal information database.
  • Counter-narcotics Enhancement ($7,000,000) to help Pakistani authorities counter illicit narcotics through programs such as road building, electrification and crop substitution programs in areas of the NWFP and the FATA.

The second document reprograms $4,500,000 to the Kohistan and Kala Dhaka Area Development Project in northern Pakistan. This will help Pakistani authorities extend counter-narcotics crop control and alternative crop development in this area that was hard-hit by last year’s earthquake.

The final document provides an additional $390,000 to support the Pakistani Special Investigative Cell of the Pakistani Anti-Narcotics Forces (ANF).