{"id":31884,"date":"2018-10-29T11:39:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T06:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31884"},"modified":"2018-10-29T11:39:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T06:09:32","slug":"u-s-asks-pakistan-to-prosecute-terrorist-saeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/u-s-asks-pakistan-to-prosecute-terrorist-saeed\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S asks Pakistan to prosecute \u2018terrorist\u2019 Saeed\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-international\/us-asks-pakistan-to-prosecute-terrorist-saeed\/article22476582.ece\">U.S asks Pakistan to prosecute \u2018terrorist\u2019 Saeed<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. said on Friday that it has told Pakistan clearly that Hafiz Saeed is a \u201cterrorist\u201d and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, reacting strongly to Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi\u2019s remarks that there was no case against Saeed<\/p>\n<p><strong>State Department responds strongly to Pak. PM\u2019s remarks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The reaction by the State Department came after Mr. Abbasi, during an interview to Geo TV on Tuesday, referred to Saeed\u00a0sahib.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Call for legal action<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert said: \u201cWe believe that he should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law&#8230; He is listed by the UNSC 1267, the Al-Qaeda Sanctions Committee for targeted sanctions due to his affiliation with Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is a designated foreign terror organisation,\u201d Ms. Nauert told reporters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Challenging times<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Acknowledging that the U.S. has had some challenging times with the government of Pakistan recently, Ms. Nauert said the administration expected Pakistan to do a lot more to address terrorism issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Earlier<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the U.S. suspended about $2 billion in security assistance to Pakistan. In retaliation, Pakistan reportedly suspended military and intelligence cooperation with the U.S. The State Department said it had not received any formal information in this regard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S asks Pakistan to prosecute \u2018terrorist\u2019 Saeed\u00a0 Context The U.S. said on Friday that it has told Pakistan clearly that Hafiz Saeed is a \u201cterrorist\u201d and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, reacting strongly to Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi\u2019s remarks that there was no case against Saeed State Department&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/u-s-asks-pakistan-to-prosecute-terrorist-saeed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S asks Pakistan to prosecute \u2018terrorist\u2019 Saeed\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704929639},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}