{"id":41487,"date":"2018-01-02T20:18:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T15:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41487"},"modified":"2018-01-02T20:18:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T15:18:52","slug":"nsc-reviews-trumps-anti-pakistan-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41487","title":{"rendered":"NSC reviews Trump\u2019s anti-Pakistan statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad, Jan. 2 (TNS):<\/strong> A high level meeting of National Security Committee (NSC) to discuss US President Donald Trump\u2019s latest statement alleging Pakistan of \u2018lies and deceit\u2019 was held in Islamabad on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi chaired the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Minister, Minister Defence, Interior Minister, CJCSC, Chief of the Army Staff, Chief of the Air Staff, Chief of the Naval Staff, National Security Advisor and senior civil and military officials were present in the NSC which discussed Trump\u2019s threatening statement on Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>In a 50 word tweet, the US President stated: \u201cThe US has foolishly given Pakistan more than $33 billion 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<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s first tweet of 2018 comes just days after a\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>report that the Trump administration was considering withholding the release of an already-delayed $255 million payment over Islamabad\u2019s failure to \u2018do more\u2019 in the war on terror.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The tweet is just the latest lowlight in the tailspin that the US-Pakistan relationship has been caught in since August when Trump accused Pakistan of giving \u201csafe haven to agents of chaos, violence and terror\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>There were signs of some improvement in the middle, with Trump tweeting in October that he was \u201cStarting to develop a much better relationship with Pakistan and its leaders,\u201d as he thanked \u201cthem for their cooperation on many fronts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But despite this, the tweet though was less bolt-from-the-blue and more hint-not-taken. Weeks earlier, Trump had said, \u201cWe make massive payments every year to Pakistan. They have to help,\u201d as he unveiled his national security strategy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Jan. 2 (TNS): A high level meeting of National Security Committee (NSC) to discuss US President Donald Trump\u2019s latest statement alleging Pakistan of \u2018lies and deceit\u2019 was held in Islamabad on Tuesday. Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi chaired the meeting. Foreign Minister, Minister Defence, Interior Minister, CJCSC, Chief of the Army Staff, Chief of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-41487","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\/41487","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=41487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41489,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41487\/revisions\/41489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}