{"id":42245,"date":"2018-01-06T00:15:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T19:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42245"},"modified":"2018-01-06T00:15:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T19:15:31","slug":"us-ambassador-meets-india-foreign-secretary-discusses-cut-in-aid-to-pak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42245","title":{"rendered":"US ambassador meets India foreign secretary, discusses cut in aid to Pak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi, Jan. 6 (TNS):<\/strong> Hours after the US announced cutting off military aid to Pakistan, US ambassador\u00a0to Delhi Kenneth Juster\u00a0met Indian foreign secretary\u00a0S Jaishankar\u00a0 to discuss the details and implications of the US action.<\/p>\n<p>The US, in its most sweeping action yet, suspended almost $1.3 billion in military assistance to Pakistan after US president\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0tweeted on New Year&#8217;s Day that the US would no longer tolerate Pakistan&#8217;s double-speak, accusing Pakistan of having &#8220;given us nothing but lies &amp; deceit&#8221; and allegedly providing &#8220;safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in\u00a0Afghanistan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>India has not given any statement on the subject, which, Indian media reports said, could be because neither the US or India wants to &#8220;gloat&#8221; or humiliate Pakistan further.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan has predictably reacted with outrage, with the government promising to &#8220;reveal&#8221; facts of US aid, while others have demanded a downgrading of diplomatic ties with the US. But India has reason to be pleased with the US actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Jan. 6 (TNS): Hours after the US announced cutting off military aid to Pakistan, US ambassador\u00a0to Delhi Kenneth Juster\u00a0met Indian foreign secretary\u00a0S Jaishankar\u00a0 to discuss the details and implications of the US action. The US, in its most sweeping action yet, suspended almost $1.3 billion in military assistance to Pakistan after US president\u00a0Donald [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,736],"tags":[932,737],"class_list":["post-42245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-new-delhi","tag-international","tag-new-delhi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42245","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=42245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42248,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42245\/revisions\/42248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}