{"id":1660,"date":"2018-12-14T06:54:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T06:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2018-12-17T08:34:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T08:34:10","slug":"pakistan-angered-by-trumps-claim-that-it-does-nothing-for-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pakistan-angered-by-trumps-claim-that-it-does-nothing-for-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Angered by Trump\u2019s Claim That It Does \u2018Nothing\u2019 for U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"

Pakistan Angered by Trump\u2019s Claim That It Does \u2018Nothing\u2019 for U.S.<\/span><\/h1>\n

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan \u2014 Pakistan reacted angrily on Monday to criticism by President Trump that the country had not done enough in return for years of United States military aid and that the government had harbored Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda.<\/p>\n

In an\u00a0interview with \u201cFox News Sunday\u201d<\/a>\u00a0this weekend, Mr. Trump defended his decision early this year to\u00a0withdraw hundreds of millions of dollars in security aid<\/a>\u00a0to Pakistan.<\/p>\n

\u201cI ended it because they don\u2019t do anything for us, they don\u2019t do a damn thing for us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump also alleged that the Pakistani government had known Bin Laden was living in the country before he was killed in an American military raid in 2011.<\/p>\n

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The president doubled down on his criticism on Twitter on Monday, citing Bin Laden and the\u00a0Taliban resurgence in neighboring Afghanistan<\/a>\u00a0as examples of how Pakistan would \u201ctake our money and do nothing for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan\u00a0responded by saying<\/a>\u00a0that Pakistan had suffered enough fighting terrorism on behalf of the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow we will do what is best for our people & our interests,\u201d he wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n

The exchange aggravated an already tense relationship between the two countries.<\/p>\n

American officials have long complained that Pakistan has failed to act against terrorist networks operating within its borders; Pakistan denies that the networks are even present. The Haqqani network, which is allied with the Afghan Taliban, is a particular source of friction between the two countries.<\/p>\n

Mr. Khan, a populist politician who was\u00a0elected in July<\/a>, is a longtime critic of United States policy toward Pakistan, railing against the American use of drones to target militants in the country\u2019s tribal regions. He has accused the Pakistani military of kowtowing to the United States in the past.<\/p>\n

Despite his criticism, Mr. Khan says that he is not anti-American and stresses that he wants the relationship between the two countries to be based on mutual respect.<\/p>\n

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The United States and Pakistan enjoyed relatively warmer relations in the years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when Washington considered Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan\u2019s military ruler until 2008, a close ally. But the relationship turned sour amid mutual mistrust, with officials on both sides accusing each other of not doing enough.<\/p>\n

The relationship worsened in 2011 with the American raid on Bin Laden\u2019s compound, which was carried out without Pakistan\u2019s knowledge. Bin Laden had been living in the city of Abbottabad, not far from a military training school.<\/p>\n

Pakistani military officials have denied knowing Bin Laden\u2019s whereabouts, arguing that incompetence rather than complicity kept them from alerting the United States. But that has done little to assuage American skepticism.<\/p>\n

\u201cLiving in Pakistan right next to the military academy, everybody in Pakistan knew he was there,\u201d Mr. Trump told Fox News.<\/p>\n

In a series of Twitter posts earlier on Monday, Mr. Khan expressed disapproval of what he called Mr. Trump\u2019s interview \u201ctirade.\u201d Like Mr. Trump, Mr. Khan is fond of using Twitter to make announcements and respond to criticism.<\/p>\n

Mr. Khan said Pakistan had joined the United States\u2019 \u201cwar on terror\u201d in 2001, even though no Pakistanis had been involved in the Sept. 11 attacks. He said Pakistan had \u201csuffered 75,000 casualties\u201d in that effort and experienced more than $123 billion in economic losses, compared with United States aid of $20 billion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pakistan Angered by Trump\u2019s Claim That It Does \u2018Nothing\u2019 for U.S.   ISLAMABAD, Pakistan \u2014 Pakistan reacted angrily on Monday to criticism by President Trump that the country had not done enough in return for years of United States military aid and that the government had harbored Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,46],"tags":[59,60,58,62,57,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1786,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions\/1786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}