{"id":41777,"date":"2018-01-03T22:47:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T17:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41777"},"modified":"2018-01-03T22:47:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T17:47:42","slug":"pakistan-us-still-friends-says-army-spokesman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41777","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan, US still friends: says army spokesman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad, Jan. 3 (TNS):<\/strong> Amid war of words between officials of both countries, DG, ISPR said that US and Pakistan are still friends.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to a private news channel, Major General Asif Ghafoor said that the Pakistani nation\u2019s collective response to Trump\u2019s tweet was a positive sign.<\/p>\n<p>He said Pakistan will not compromise over its dignity, and peace in the region was not possible until issues with India were resolved.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that Pakistan and the United States were still friends, and the relationship between the two countries went through ups and downs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are friends and allies and war cannot be fought with allies,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are several occasions where Pakistan has sided with the United States\u2026 at one time Pakistan had the option to become the ally of Russia but it opted to join hands with the US instead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ghafoor said India\u2019s destabilising role was the biggest obstacle in regional peace, and it did not want Pakistan to succeed in its war against terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>The DG ISPR said that the Coalition Support Fund was meant for the war in Afghanistan. \u201cPakistan and the United States are allies and they need to work together,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>In his first tweet of the year, Trump said\u00a0the US \u2018foolishly\u2019 gave aid to Pakistan over the course of 15 years but Islamabad remained deceitful by providing safe havens to \u2018terrorists\u2019 from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In response to the US president\u2019s statement, the country\u2019s civil and military leadership on Tuesday showed an unprecedented restraint, saying they would not act in haste despite the onslaught.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Jan. 3 (TNS): Amid war of words between officials of both countries, DG, ISPR said that US and Pakistan are still friends. Speaking to a private news channel, Major General Asif Ghafoor said that the Pakistani nation\u2019s collective response to Trump\u2019s tweet was a positive sign. He said Pakistan will not compromise over its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23,51],"tags":[2018,118,149,589,151],"class_list":["post-41777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","category-rawalpindi","tag-general-asif-ghafoor","tag-islamabad","tag-ispr","tag-national","tag-rawalpindi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41777","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=41777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41778,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41777\/revisions\/41778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}