NEW YORK - With US set to leave Afghanistan in 2014, it plans to provide military aid to the war-torn country valued at $700 million that includes 30 Mi-17 helicopters, unarmed drones, light attack aircraft, border-surveillance systems and counter-IED equipment, according to a media reportThe Wall Street Journal said that the Pentagon has started briefing Capitol Hill on the aid plans for Afghanistan. President Hamid Karzai had talks in Washington with Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Afghanistan’s future.The report said future instalments will include upto a handful of C-130 transport planes that the US Air Force plans to retire, as well as light attack aircraft.The US Congress has already appropriated billions of dollars to train and equip Afghan security forces.American officials say the money for the new equipment would come from those funds and wouldn’t require additional Congressional action, though lawmakers could still block specific sales.Afghan President has been repeating his demands of the United States to provide modern equipment to Afghan Airforce, the report said.President Barack Obama will host Karzai on Friday for formal talks on the US engagement with Afghanistan after NATO-set drawdown in 2014.In Washington, Gen. Martin Dempsey, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he met Wednesday with Afghan Defence Minister Bismillah Khan Muhammadi. Dempsey said he asked the Afghans to “move beyond a wish list of equipment” and instead discuss threats the Afghan military is likely to face and what it needs to respond.Meanwhile, at the State Department, Hamid Karzai and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discussed the future of US support for Afghanistan following next year’s withdrawal of American forces.According to a Voice of America report, State Department officials say President Karzai and Secretary Clinton discussed security and economic transitions in Afghanistan, greater regional integration, and preparations for Afghanistan’s 2014 elections.State Department Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland, earlier, said the United States, Afghanistan and Pakistan also are working to reconcile the government in Kabul with more moderate elements of the Taliban.“We have had some modest steps forward in recent months, including a commitment by Pakistan to support Afghan reconciliation, some of the work we’ve been doing in the core group — US, Afghanistan, Pakistan — to pave the way and ease the conditions for those Taliban who might need safe passage to go have conversations,” Nuland said.