{"id":341957,"date":"2018-01-01T16:45:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T15:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-president-threatens-to-cut-pakistan-aid\/"},"modified":"2018-01-01T16:45:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T15:45:47","slug":"presstv-us-president-threatens-to-cut-pakistan-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-president-threatens-to-cut-pakistan-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US president threatens to cut Pakistan aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump has threatened to cut off foreign aid to Pakistan, accusing Islamabad of harboring violent extremists.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump said in his first tweet of 2018 that Washington had &#8220;foolishly given Pakistan more than $33 billion in aid over the last 15 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And they have given us nothing but lies &amp; deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools,&#8221; wrote the US president on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan, with little help. No more!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Washington has long accused Islamabad of allowing militants to operate relatively freely in Pakistan&#8217;s porous border regions to carry out operations in neighboring Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Back in August, Trump declared that &#8220;Pakistan often gives safe haven to agents of chaos, violence, and terror.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The US president&#8217;s latest tweet comes following an increasingly tense back-and-forth between Washington and Islamabad. US-Pakistan ties have taken a nosedive under the Trump&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/01\/01\/547485\/US-Trump-Pakistan-Afghanistan\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has threatened to cut off foreign aid to Pakistan, accusing Islamabad of harboring violent extremists. Trump said in his first tweet of 2018 that Washington had &#8220;foolishly given Pakistan more than $33 billion in aid over the last 15 years.&#8221; &#8220;And they have given us nothing but lies &amp; deceit, thinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-341957","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\/341957","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}