---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 8421"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "8421"
heading: "Purposes of assistance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/8421"
units:
  - "Chapter 91 — Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan"
  - "Subchapter II — Security Assistance for Pakistan"
---

# §8421. Purposes of assistance


The purposes of assistance under this subchapter are—

- (1) to [support](/usc/22/7432.md?p=12) Pakistan’s paramount national security need to fight and win the ongoing [counterinsurgency](/usc/22/8401.md?p=2) within its borders in accordance with its national security interests;
- (2) to work with the Government of Pakistan to improve Pakistan’s border security and control and help prevent any Pakistani territory from being used as a base or conduit for terrorist attacks in Pakistan, or elsewhere;
- (3) to work in close cooperation with the Government of Pakistan to coordinate action against extremist and terrorist targets; and
- (4) to help strengthen the institutions of democratic governance and promote control of military institutions by a democratically elected civilian government.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–73, title II, § 201, Oct. 15, 2009, 123 Stat. 2069.)