{"id":45038,"date":"2018-01-17T20:10:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T15:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=45038"},"modified":"2022-12-13T12:49:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T07:49:14","slug":"khar-says-she-would-frankly-ignore-trump-tweet-as-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=45038","title":{"rendered":"Khar says she would \u201cfrankly ignore Trump tweet as FM"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington, Jan. 17 (TNS):<\/strong> Pakistan\u2019s former foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar said if she was in the Foreign Office of Pakistan when the\u00a0infamous Donald Trump tweet\u00a0happened, she would \u201cfrankly ignore it.\u201d, and be \u201cmore concerned about the tweeter than the tweet.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an interview to\u00a0CNN<\/em>, Khar was asked what her reaction was to the tweet, to which she responded, \u201cmy reaction was, what is the leadership of the world coming to.<\/p>\n

The United States is currently the superpower, but if you\u2019re going to tweet away your foreign policy, then clearly frankly if I was in the Foreign Office of Pakistan, I would totally ignore this tweet.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis person is a habitual tweeter who tweets rather flippantly, almost like which side of the bed you woke up on. After all the other tweets, I think we should be more concerned about the tweeter than the tweet,\u201d remarked Khar.<\/p>\n

When asked whether she thinks the Pakistani government would retaliate, she said she would respond to the policy statement given out on South Asia \u201cwhich wasn\u2019t encouraging for Pakistan,\u201d because that was a government approach.<\/p>\n

Khar further said externalising the massive failure in Afghanistan \u201cis not a solution, and unfortunately we\u2019ve seen this earnest need on the other side.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former minister also commented on Trump\u2019s decision to take away the aid it gives to Pakistan saying the country\u2019s dependence on US aid has been \u201crather exaggerated\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019re dependent on it all.
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As someone who managed Pakistan\u2019s portfolio\u2019s for almost five years, I can tell you that our reliance on them is vastly exaggerated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taking a jibe at Trump, Khar said one doesn\u2019t need to be a \u201cstable genius\u201d to do some basic mathematics.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe talked about a $33 billion that Pakistan received from US. The fact is, since 2001 Pakistan has received somewhere around $4.8bn under the head of security assistance, and $5.3bn in the realm of civilian assistance,\u201d she noted.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the US-Pak relationship during the Soviet war in Afghanistan, Khar said \u201cthey both very conveniently got out of the relationship and the loss was Pakistan\u2019s to bear.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the mujahideen which had been trained on our soil, all the infiltration of terrorist extremist mindset which had happened in our people\u2019s minds was left for us to deal with and America was happily moved away,\u201d said Khar.<\/p>\n

She further said Pakistan\u2019s effort in ridding Afghanistan from the Soviet \u201cinstilled extremism inside Pakistani society and changed the fabric of society forever,\u201d but that Pakistan does not want to win any argument on the status of victimhood. Saying Pakistan has been happily scapegoated for the immense failure in Afghanistan for which Pakistan is an equal victim to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t afford to be flippant about the realities on the ground in Afghanistan. Warlord-ism all over the place in Afghanistan, where Taliban have taken over.\u201d<\/p>\n

Khar was further questioned about Pakistan\u2019s relationship with China and whether this moment is solidifying Pakistan turning away from the US towards China. The former FM responded saying as a foreign policy practitioner, she does not believe you have to turn away from one to turn towards another.<\/p>\n

\u201cChina is a regional strategic partner, perhaps the only real strategic partner we\u2019ve had, not from today or the past five years but for the last\u00a0four decades. With them\u00a0[ China] we have complete alignment of interests.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Washington, Jan. 17 (TNS): Pakistan\u2019s former foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar said if she was in the Foreign Office of Pakistan when the\u00a0infamous Donald Trump tweet\u00a0happened, she would \u201cfrankly ignore it.\u201d, and be \u201cmore concerned about the tweeter than the tweet.\u201d In an interview to\u00a0CNN, Khar was asked what her reaction was to the tweet, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,303],"tags":[2262,932,304],"class_list":["post-45038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-washington","tag-hina-rabbani-khar","tag-international","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45038","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=45038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109135,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45038\/revisions\/109135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}