{"id":41281,"date":"2018-01-01T22:38:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T17:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41281"},"modified":"2018-01-01T22:42:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T17:42:24","slug":"us-shouldnt-blame-pakistan-for-its-failures-islamabad-hits-back-at-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41281","title":{"rendered":"US shouldn\u2019t blame Pakistan for its failures, Islamabad hits back at Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad, Jan. 1 (TNS):<\/strong> Pakistan on Monday warned the United States against the malicious campaign that is being used to trivialise Islamabad\u2019s achievements in the war against terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe foreign office said allies do not put each other on notice,\u201d the government of Pakistan said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41284\" src=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture2-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture2-1.png 516w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture2-1-300x267.png 300w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture2-1-471x420.png 471w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pakistan was reacting US President Donald Trump\u2019s\u00a0statement\u00a0that America had \u201cfoolishly\u201d given Pakistan $33 billion in aid over the last 15 years. He claimed that in return Pakistan had given the US nothing but \u201clies and deceit\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesperson for Pakistan Army Major General Asif Ghafoor said that the financial aid that the country had received from the US was a \u201creimbursement for the support Islamabad gave to the coalition for its fight against al Qaeda\u201d, Pakistan said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41285\" src=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"524\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture3.png 524w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture3-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture3-296x420.png 296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb said that the US should not blame Pakistan for Washington\u2019s failure in Afghanistan. Pakistan has rendered unmatched sacrifices in the war against terrorism and there is no ambiguity about it, Aurangzeb said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41286\" src=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-2.png 514w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-2-256x300.png 256w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-2-359x420.png 359w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In July 2017, the United States had\u00a0blocked\u00a0$350 million (Rs 2,23,433 lakh) in aid to Pakistan for not taking enough action against the Haqqani network. In August, the Trump administration told the US Congress that it was putting on hold $255 million (Rs 1,62,787 lakh) in aid due to Pakistan as part of $1.1 billion sanctioned in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Jan. 1 (TNS): Pakistan on Monday warned the United States against the malicious campaign that is being used to trivialise Islamabad\u2019s achievements in the war against terrorism. \u201cThe foreign office said allies do not put each other on notice,\u201d the government of Pakistan said in a statement. Pakistan was reacting US President Donald Trump\u2019s\u00a0statement\u00a0that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-41281","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\/41281","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=41281"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41287,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41281\/revisions\/41287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}