{"id":32364,"date":"2018-10-29T13:43:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T08:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=32364"},"modified":"2018-10-29T13:43:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T08:13:45","slug":"us-foolishly-gave-money-to-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/us-foolishly-gave-money-to-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"US foolishly gave money to Pakistan\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/us-foolishly-gave-money-to-pakistan\/article22349019.ece\"><strong>US foolishly gave money to Pakistan<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pakistan was U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s target of ire on January 1 as he threatened to stop U.S. aid to Islamabad<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has Mr Trump said?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies &amp; deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools. They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan, with little help. No more!,\u201d he tweeted on Monday morning<\/p>\n<p><strong>Backdrop<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In recent years, Washington has tightened the purse strings on aid, demanding more action against terror networks operating from Pakistan<\/li>\n<li>In August 2017, the Trump administration kept $255 million in military assistance in suspension even as it demanded specific action against terrorists<\/li>\n<li>Trump\u2019s tweet followed a\u00a0New York Times\u00a0report last week that the administration was planning to deny aid under the State Department\u2019s assistance programme, known as Foreign Military Financing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US foolishly gave money to Pakistan\u00a0 Context Pakistan was U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s target of ire on January 1 as he threatened to stop U.S. aid to Islamabad What has Mr Trump said? The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years, and they have&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/us-foolishly-gave-money-to-pakistan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US foolishly gave money to Pakistan\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-32364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704878609},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32364","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=32364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}