{"id":41497,"date":"2018-01-02T21:07:53","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T16:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41497"},"modified":"2018-01-02T21:07:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T16:07:53","slug":"audit-of-us-aid-would-prove-trump-deceiver-and-liar-kh-asif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41497","title":{"rendered":"Audit of US aid would prove Trump deceiver and liar: Kh. Asif"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad, Jan. 2 (TNS):<\/strong> Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif on Tuesday challenged President\u00a0Donald Trump&#8217;s claim\u00a0that the US has given Pakistan &#8220;more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years&#8221;, saying verification by an audit firm would prove the US president deceiver and liar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPres Trump quoted figure of $33billion given to PAK over last 15yrs,he can hire a US based Audit firm on our expense to verify this figure &amp; let the world know who is lying &amp; deceiving..\u201d, Asif tweeted soon after NSC meeting concluded.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41498\" src=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kh-Asif.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kh-Asif.png 630w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kh-Asif-300x193.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Pakistan Army spokesman, Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor,\u00a0at a press conference last week asserted\u00a0that the aid Pakistan received from the US was &#8220;reimbursement for support we gave to the coalition for its fight against Al Qaeda.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Had we not supported the US and Afghanistan, they would never have been able to defeat Al Qaeda,&#8221; he had said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Earlier, <\/strong>Asif&#8217;s tweet came after Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi chaired a meeting of the National Security Council (NSC) to discuss Trump&#8217;s\u00a0recent accusations against Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>In his first tweet of the New Year, Trump had accused Pakistan of basing its relationship with the US on \u201cnothing but lies and deceit\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Jan. 2 (TNS): Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif on Tuesday challenged President\u00a0Donald Trump&#8217;s claim\u00a0that the US has given Pakistan &#8220;more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years&#8221;, saying verification by an audit firm would prove the US president deceiver and liar. \u201cPres Trump quoted figure of $33billion given to PAK over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,200,589],"class_list":["post-41497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-islamabad","tag-khawaja-asif","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41497","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=41497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41499,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41497\/revisions\/41499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}