{"id":332623,"date":"2017-10-29T10:48:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T09:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/tillerson-delivers-stern-warning-to-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2017-10-29T10:48:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T09:48:24","slug":"tillerson-delivers-stern-warning-to-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/tillerson-delivers-stern-warning-to-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Tillerson delivers stern warning to Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Tillerson delivers stern warning to Pakistan<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Sampath Perera<br \/>\n    <br \/>28 October 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited Pakistan on Tuesday, the first high-level visit by a Trump administration official to what was once the principal US ally in South Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Tillerson delivered a stern message to Pakistan\u2019s political and military leaders reiterating the sharp criticism meted out to Islamabad by President Donald Trump in his August announcement of the new US strategy for prevailing in its 16 year-long war in Afghanistan. In that speech, Trump placed Pakistan \u201con notice\u201d for harbouring terrorist \u201csafe havens\u201d and warned that if it did not bow to US demands and quickly mend it ways Washington would downgrade relations with Islamabad and otherwise take reprisals.<\/p>\n<p>Tillerson\u2019s visit to Islamabad was part of a South Asia tour that saw him also meet with Afghan and Indian leaders. He had two principal objectives. The first to implement the new Afghan war strategy, which aims to gore the Taliban into accepting a Washington-designed \u201cnegotiated settlement\u201d that would leave the basic elements of the US-installed neo-colonial regime in Kabul intact.<\/p>\n<p>Tillerson\u2019s second main objective was to further cement the Indo-US military-strategic alliance. This, as he made clear in a speech last week to the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), is directed at forcing China, if need be through war, to accept US-hegemony over the Indo-Pacific region. (See: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/10\/24\/till-o24.html\"> Tillerson calls for \u201cdramatic deepening\u201d of Indo-US alliance<\/a>.)\u00a0A key element in Washington\u2019s frustration with Pakistan is that it has responded to the burgeoning Indo-US partnership by expanding its own alliance with Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>In Islamabad, Tillerson told interim Prime Minister&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/10\/28\/till-o28.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Tillerson delivers stern warning to Pakistan By Sampath Perera 28 October 2017 US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited Pakistan on Tuesday, the first high-level visit by a Trump administration official to what was once the principal US ally in South Asia. Tillerson delivered a stern message to Pakistan\u2019s political and military leaders reiterating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-332623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}