{"id":14999,"date":"2017-08-22T12:08:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T07:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=14999"},"modified":"2017-08-22T12:08:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T07:08:04","slug":"us-state-secretary-telephones-pm-abbasi-before-trumps-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=14999","title":{"rendered":"US state secretary telephones PM Abbasi before Trump&#8217;s address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD, Aug 22 (TNS):<\/strong> United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson telephoned Prime Minister (PM) of Pakistan Shahid Khaqan Abbasi before US President Donald Trump\u2019s first formal address to the nation as commander-in-chief.<\/p>\n<p>Both leaders exchanged viewpoints on America\u2019s new strategy regarding South Asia. Tillerson also contacted the foreign ministers of India and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>In his address, Donald Trump warned Pakistan that Washington will no longer tolerate Pakistan offering &#8220;safe havens&#8221; to extremists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can no longer be silent about Pakistan\u2019s safe havens for terrorist organizations,&#8221; Trump declared, outlining a new US security strategy in South Asia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pakistan has much to gain from partnering with our effort in Afghanistan. It has much to lose by continuing to harbor criminals and terrorists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Going further, Trump suggested that military and other aid to Washington\u2019s nuclear-armed ally is at stake if it does not clamp down on extremism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have been paying Pakistan billions and billions of dollars at the same time they are housing the very terrorists that we are fighting,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That will have to change and that will change immediately,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is time for Pakistan to dedicate to civilization and order and peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Aug 22 (TNS): United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson telephoned Prime Minister (PM) of Pakistan Shahid Khaqan Abbasi before US President Donald Trump\u2019s first formal address to the nation as commander-in-chief. Both leaders exchanged viewpoints on America\u2019s new strategy regarding South Asia. Tillerson also contacted the foreign ministers of India and Afghanistan. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-14999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-islamabad","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15002,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14999\/revisions\/15002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}