{"id":15160,"date":"2017-08-23T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T19:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=15160"},"modified":"2017-08-23T00:00:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T19:00:56","slug":"emergency-meeting-of-nsc-has-been-called-to-discuss-trump-statement-asif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=15160","title":{"rendered":"Emergency meeting of NSC has been called to discuss Trump statement: Asif"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad, August 22 (TNS):<\/strong> Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif said on Tuesday that an emergency meeting of National Security Committee (NSC) has been called on Thursday to discuss US President statement and Pakistan\u2019s next strategy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We held a cabinet meeting today (Tuesday) and the contents of the speech were discussed,&#8221; said Asif in an interview with a private news channel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u00a0have decided to give an interim response. A comprehensive response will come after a meeting of the National Security Committee (NSC) on Thursday,&#8221; he said<\/p>\n<p>The National Security Committee meeting is scheduled to take place at 11am on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign minister said the issue will also be included in the agenda of the federal cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump has failed to acknowledge Pakistan&#8217;s sacrifices\u201d, Asif said adding that \u201cno one has invested more in the war against terrorism than Pakistan\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump, in his Afghan policy speech, warned Pakistan for allegedly offering safe haven to &#8220;agents of chaos.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Khawaja Asif reacting the statement said: &#8220;Our contributions and sacrifices as an ally have not been acknowledged as they deserved to have been acknowledged,&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The minister further said that Pakistan&#8217;s contributions have been disregarded and disrespected by the US president, while the role of India was hailed, which is involved in state-sponsored terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>The threat of Taliban in Afghanistan is on the rise, Asif said. &#8220;We are willing to send Afghan refugees back to Afghanistan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our commitment towards war against terrorism is unmatched. We have more experience in eliminating terrorism than any other country,&#8221; he claimed.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign minister, while praising the role of the armed forces said, &#8220;Pakistan&#8217;s Army contributions in the battle against terrorists are unparalleled.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have fought the war using our own resources. We have sent the Afghan refugees back with our own money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, August 22 (TNS): Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif said on Tuesday that an emergency meeting of National Security Committee (NSC) has been called on Thursday to discuss US President statement and Pakistan\u2019s next strategy. &#8220;We held a cabinet meeting today (Tuesday) and the contents of the speech were discussed,&#8221; said Asif in an interview with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589,112,201,111,108],"class_list":["post-15160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-islamabad","tag-national","tag-news","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistan-news","tag-tns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15160","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=15160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15162,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15160\/revisions\/15162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}