{"id":43830,"date":"2018-01-12T23:59:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T18:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=43830"},"modified":"2018-01-12T23:59:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T18:59:38","slug":"pakistan-did-not-halt-intelligence-sharing-with-us-state-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=43830","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan did not halt intelligence sharing with US: State Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, Jan. 12 (TNS): <\/strong>US State Department said Islamabad has not put a halt to intelligence sharing with Washington.<\/p>\n<p>State Department Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Steven Goldstein told reporters at a special briefing that no such decision\u00a0had been communicated by the Pakistani government while adding that he had \u201ca feeling\u2026 that Pakistan will do the right thing and turn over the terrorists and honour their commitment\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>To a question what will be the next US step if Pakistan\u2019s policies towards Afghanistan and the US do not change, Goldstein said, \u201cWe would hope that Pakistan would come to the table and that they would turn over those terrorists that we have asked be turned over. We\u2019ve indicated very clearly that we are \u2013 that we believe that can happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also recalled that the US has only suspended the aid without reallocating the money. \u201cSo now it is the job of Pakistan to take seriously their commitment to us, and most importantly to the people of Pakistan who would most be hurt by this, by another terrorist \u2013 any terrorist activity, and come forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Pakistan \u201dhas not yet come forward,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the exact amount of Foreign Military Financing that the State Department will suspend pursuant to President Donald Trump\u2019s decision, he repeated a previous rough estimate of \u201csomething close to a billion dollars\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Defence Minister Khurram Dastgir said that Pakistan had suspended military and intelligence cooperation with the US after President Donald Trump\u2019s diatribe remarks against the country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, Jan. 12 (TNS): US State Department said Islamabad has not put a halt to intelligence sharing with Washington. State Department Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Steven Goldstein told reporters at a special briefing that no such decision\u00a0had been communicated by the Pakistani government while adding that he had \u201ca feeling\u2026 that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,303],"tags":[932,304],"class_list":["post-43830","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\/43830","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=43830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43831,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43830\/revisions\/43831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}