{"id":41293,"date":"2018-01-01T23:24:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T18:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41293"},"modified":"2018-01-01T23:24:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T18:24:14","slug":"pakistan-summons-us-ambassador-to-lodge-protest-over-trump-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41293","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan summons US ambassador to lodge protest over trump tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad, Jan. 1 (TNS):<\/strong> Hours after US president tweet, the Pakistan Foreign Office summoned\u00a0US Ambassador David\u00a0Hale\u00a0on Monday night\u00a0and\u00a0lodged its protest against\u00a0Donald Trump\u2019s remarks wherein he accused Pakistan of \u201clies and deceit\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The US Embassy confirmed that Ambassador Hale was summoned by the Foreign Office at 9pm.<\/p>\n<p>Reports said that Foreign Secretary\u00a0Tehmina Janjua\u00a0sought an explanation from the ambassador over the US president\u2019s tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier,\u00a0Trump tweeted that the US \u2018foolishly\u2019 gave aid to Pakistan over the course of 15 years but Islamabad remained\u00a0deceitful by providing safe havens to \u2018terrorists\u2019 from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies and deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools. They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan, with little help. No more!,\u201d Trump said in his tweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Jan. 1 (TNS): Hours after US president tweet, the Pakistan Foreign Office summoned\u00a0US Ambassador David\u00a0Hale\u00a0on Monday night\u00a0and\u00a0lodged its protest against\u00a0Donald Trump\u2019s remarks wherein he accused Pakistan of \u201clies and deceit\u201d. The US Embassy confirmed that Ambassador Hale was summoned by the Foreign Office at 9pm. Reports said that Foreign Secretary\u00a0Tehmina Janjua\u00a0sought an explanation from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-41293","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\/41293","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=41293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41295,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41293\/revisions\/41295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}