Washington: The Bush administrating hasearmarked US$ 300 million for Pakistanfrom nearly US$ 300 billion that the White House is seeking from the Congressfor the global war on terror.

The White House is seeking US$ 294.8 billion to fund global counterterrorismoperations, including US$ 99.6 billion for fiscal year 2007, US$ 145.2 billionin 2008 and US$ 50 billion in 2009.

The majority of the funding has been allocated to the Pentagon but more thanUSD 9 billions has been sought from the State Department budget.

The White House has asked for more than US$ 36 billion for the StateDepartment, a 22 percent increase from its 2006 appropriation and much of this isslated for transformational diplomacy initiative that the Secretary of StateCondoleezza Rice has been talking about in her testimonies before the HouseForeign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee over thelast two days.

It is being pointed out that the State Department's foreign military financinginitiative provides security assistance to help allies defend their countriesfrom internal and external threats.

If the US$ 4.5 billion for the programme is approved it will have US$ 2.4billion to Israel, US$ 1.3 billion to Egypt, US$ 300 million to Pakistan, US$200 million to Jordan and US$ 15.7 million to Indonesia.

An additional US$ 89.5 million is sought to help provide training for foreignmilitary officers under States International Military Education and Trainingprogramme.