§8424 Pakistan Counterinsurgency Capability Fund

Summary

For fiscal year 2010, the State Department must fund the Pakistan Counterinsurgency Capability Fund with the money Congress set aside for it and any other money the Secretary of State already has for that purpose. The Secretary of State, with the agreement of the Secretary of Defense, may use the money to build and keep Pakistan’s counterinsurgency capability under the same terms that applied in fiscal year 2009. The Secretary of State may transfer money from this Fund to the Defense Department’s Pakistan Counterinsurgency Fund (created by Public Law 111–32) and the Defense Secretary, with the State Secretary’s agreement, can send it back if it is not needed. Transferred money will be merged into the Defense fund and used under the same purposes and time limits, subject to subsections (d) and (e) of section 8423. This authority is in addition to other ways to assist other countries. The State Department must give the appropriate congressional committees a written notice at least 15 days before any transfer. Notices may be sent in classified or unclassified form. “Appropriate congressional committees” means the House and Senate Appropriations, Armed Services, and the House Foreign Affairs and Senate Foreign Relations committees.