{"id":15113,"date":"2017-08-22T19:34:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T14:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=15113"},"modified":"2017-08-22T19:34:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T14:34:29","slug":"us-envoy-calls-on-asif-after-trumps-allegations-on-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=15113","title":{"rendered":"US envoy calls on Asif after Trump\u2019s allegations on Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad, August 22 (TNS):<\/strong> Aftermath of Donald Trump accusations against Pakistan of allegedly \u2018harbouring terrorists\u2019 in its new policy on Afghanistan, US ambassador David Hale met Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif\u00a0in Islamabad on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement issued by the Foreign Office, Ambassador Hale briefed Khawaja Asif about President Trump\u2019s latest statement on the US\u00a0policy review on South Asia and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Hale, according to the Foreign Office, conveyed that US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson looked forward to meeting Asif in the next few days to have an in-depth discussion on the state of play in the bilateral relationship as well as the new US policy on South Asia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe foreign minister reiterated Pakistan\u2019s perspective and desire for peace and stability in Afghanistan,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting Pakistan\u2019s immense sacrifices in the enduring fight against terrorism, the statement said, Asif underlined Pakistan\u2019s continued desire to work with the international community to eliminate the menace of terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the deployment of thousands of more troops in Afghanistan, Trump also criticized Pakistan for allegedly harbouring \u201cagents of chaos, violence, and terror,\u201d saying the US could \u201cno longer be silent about Pakistan\u2019s safe havens for terrorist organisations\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, August 22 (TNS): Aftermath of Donald Trump accusations against Pakistan of allegedly \u2018harbouring terrorists\u2019 in its new policy on Afghanistan, US ambassador David Hale met Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif\u00a0in Islamabad on Tuesday. According to a statement issued by the Foreign Office, Ambassador Hale briefed Khawaja Asif about President Trump\u2019s latest statement on the US\u00a0policy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589,108],"class_list":["post-15113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-islamabad","tag-national","tag-tns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15113","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=15113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15116,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15113\/revisions\/15116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}