{"id":41503,"date":"2018-01-02T21:21:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T16:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41503"},"modified":"2022-02-26T13:32:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T08:32:15","slug":"us-officially-blocks-255-million-military-aid-to-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41503","title":{"rendered":"US officially blocks $255 million military aid to Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, Jan. 2 (TNS):<\/strong> After US President Trump\u2019s harsh tweet against Pakistan, the\u00a0White House confirmed on Tuesday that an already-delayed $255 million military aid to Islamabad had been blocked.<\/p>\n<p>The decision came a day after President Donald Trump lashed out at Pakistan for, what he said; the US got \u201cnothing but lies and deceit\u201d\u00a0from Islamabad in the war against terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States does not plan to spend the $255 million in FY 2016 foreign military financing for Pakistan at this time,\u201d\u00a0<em>CNN<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>quoted a National Security Council spokesperson\u00a0as saying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president has made clear the US expects Pakistan to take decisive action against terrorists and militants on its soil,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The White House spokesperson\u00a0said, \u201cPakistan\u2019s actions in support of the South Asia Strategy will ultimately determine the trajectory of our relationship, including future security assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0added that the administration would be reviewing Pakistan\u2019s level of cooperation in security areas.<\/p>\n<p>In his first tweet for Pakistan marking the new year, Trump said the US had\u00a0\u201cfoolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He also once again accused the country of providing safe havens to terrorists that the US targeted in Afghanistan.<br \/>buy levitra super force online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pharmalucence.com\/wp-content\/languages\/en\/levitra-super-force.html\">www.pharmalucence.com\/wp-content\/languages\/en\/levitra-super-force.html<\/a> no prescription<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>The remarks drew angry rebuke from Pakistan, which summoned\u00a0US Ambassador David\u00a0Hale and sought an explanation\u00a0sought an explanation over the tweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, Jan. 2 (TNS): After US President Trump\u2019s harsh tweet against Pakistan, the\u00a0White House confirmed on Tuesday that an already-delayed $255 million military aid to Islamabad had been blocked. The decision came a day after President Donald Trump lashed out at Pakistan for, what he said; the US got \u201cnothing but lies and deceit\u201d\u00a0from Islamabad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,303],"tags":[932,304],"class_list":["post-41503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-washington","tag-international","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41503","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=41503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103634,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41503\/revisions\/103634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}