{"id":15237,"date":"2017-08-23T13:52:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T08:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=15237"},"modified":"2017-08-23T13:52:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T08:52:50","slug":"india-rejects-trumps-do-more-plea-on-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=15237","title":{"rendered":"India rejects Trump&#8217;s \u2018do more\u2019 plea on Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW DELHI, Aug 23 (TNS):<\/strong> India has\u00a0 tacitly dismissed US President Donald Trump\u2019s plea that India should do more in Afghanistan because it made billions of dollars in trade with America.<\/p>\n<p>A statement issued by the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi, however, also made it clear that India would continue to help Afghanistan, because people of the two countries shared \u2018traditional friendship.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been steadfast in extending reconstruction and development assistance to Afghanistan in keeping with our traditional friendship with its people. We will continue these efforts,\u201d Raveesh Kumar, spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs, said.<\/p>\n<p>New Delhi\u2019s statement on Tuesday cited India\u2019s \u2018traditional friendship\u2019 with Afghanistan as the reason for its assistance to the war-ravaged country dismissing Trump\u2019s argument that India should be obliged to do more in Afghanistan because of its trade with America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Aug 23 (TNS): India has\u00a0 tacitly dismissed US President Donald Trump\u2019s plea that India should do more in Afghanistan because it made billions of dollars in trade with America. A statement issued by the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi, however, also made it clear that India would continue to help Afghanistan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[172,733],"class_list":["post-15237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-new-dehli","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15237","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=15237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15238,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15237\/revisions\/15238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}