{"id":42035,"date":"2018-01-05T02:05:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T21:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42035"},"modified":"2018-01-05T02:05:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T21:05:44","slug":"us-suspending-the-transfer-of-military-equipment-and-security-related-funds-to-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42035","title":{"rendered":"US suspending the transfer of military equipment and security-related funds to Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON, Jan 05 (TNS):<\/strong> The United States on Friday announced that it is suspending the transfer of military equipment and security-related funds to Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today we can confirm that we are suspending security assistance only to Pakistan at this time,&#8221; State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert announced at a press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson added that Pakistan could receive the suspended funding if it takes decisive actions against Haqqani Network and Afghan Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>Nauert said she could not provide a dollar value for the suspended aid because the administration was still calculating the types of aid affected by the decision.<\/p>\n<p>US puts Pakistan on watch list for &#8216;violation of religious freedom&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The suspension of security assistance to Islamabad comes after Washington accused Pakistan of playing a \u201cdouble game\u201d on fighting terrorism and warned Islamabad it would have to do more if it wanted to maintain US aid.<\/p>\n<p>US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said Tuesday that Washington would withhold $255 million in assistance to Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Haley&#8217;s statement followed an angry tweet from Trump that the US had been rewarded with \u201cnothing but lies and deceit\u201d for giving Pakistan billions in aid.<\/p>\n<p>Nauert said the suspension of security assistance was in addition to the earlier announced suspension of $255 million aid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Jan 05 (TNS): The United States on Friday announced that it is suspending the transfer of military equipment and security-related funds to Pakistan. &#8220;Today we can confirm that we are suspending security assistance only to Pakistan at this time,&#8221; State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert announced at a press briefing. The spokesperson added that Pakistan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42035","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=42035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42037,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42035\/revisions\/42037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}