{"id":42040,"date":"2018-01-05T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T07:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42040"},"modified":"2018-01-05T12:00:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T07:00:39","slug":"us-announces-to-suspend-security-assistance-to-pakistan-targeting-csf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42040","title":{"rendered":"US announces to suspend security assistance to Pakistan targeting CSF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta questions the decision<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON Jan 05 (TNS): The<\/strong> United States says it is suspending security assistance to Pakistan targeting the Coalition Support Fund that the US pays to Pakistan to reimburse it for its counter-terrorism operations.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after President Trump\u2019s baseless allegations against Pakistan rejected by Civil and Military leadership and all political parties with one voice.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan maintains that the assistance it has received from the U.S. was mainly reimbursement for supporting U.S.-led coalition forces that invaded Afghanistan in 2001 to topple the Taliban regime.<\/p>\n<p>State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert announcing the decision at a news conference in Washington said the assistance is suspended until Pakistan takes decisive action against the Afghan Taliban and Haqqani network that are targeting U.S. personnel in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with CNN former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta questioned the decision, saying it risks pushing Pakistan toward a closer relationship with China and Russia &#8212; US adversaries that have been strengthening their economic ties with the Pakistani government in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta questions the decision WASHINGTON Jan 05 (TNS): The United States says it is suspending security assistance to Pakistan targeting the Coalition Support Fund that the US pays to Pakistan to reimburse it for its counter-terrorism operations. The move comes after President Trump\u2019s baseless allegations against Pakistan rejected by Civil and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,303],"tags":[110,304,733],"class_list":["post-42040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-washington","tag-times-international-news-agency","tag-washington","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42040","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=42040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42043,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42040\/revisions\/42043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}