Washington,
\nThe White House has said it would announce specific actions against Pakistan this week to force it to crack down on terrorists on its soil, reflecting President Donald Trump\u2019s tough stance against the country over the issue.<\/p>\n
The remarks by White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders came after Trump accused Pakistan of giving nothing to the US but \u201clies and deceit\u201d and providing \u201csafe haven\u201d to terrorists in return for USD 33 billion aid over the last 15 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey can do more to stop terrorism and we want them to do that,\u201d Sanders said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll continue to keep you posted as those decisions are finalised,\u201d Sanders said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn terms of specific actions, I think you\u2019ll see some more details come out on that in the next 24 to 48 hours…\u201d Sanders told reporters on Tuesday during a news conference in which she asked Pakistan to step up its actions against terrorists and militant groups operating from its soil.<\/p>\n
Fox News reported that the announcement in this regard is expected on Thursday.<\/p>\n
However, there was no response from the White House on the timing and nature of such an announcement.<\/p>\n
On Monday, in his first tweet of the year, Trump said the US had \u201cfoolishly\u201d given Pakistan more than USD 33 billion in aid over the last 15 years.<\/p>\n
A day later, the White House said it had suspended USD 255 million financial security assistance to Pakistan as mandated by Congress in its 2016 budget.<\/p>\n
US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley also accused Pakistan of playing a \u201cdouble game\u201d by claiming to support the US-led war against terrorism while providing a haven to terrorist groups.<\/p>\n
Pakistan has expressed \u201cdeep disappointment\u201d over the US statements, saying the accusations strike with \u201cgreat insensitivity\u201d at the trust between the two countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Washington, The White House has said it would announce specific actions against Pakistan this week to force it to crack down on terrorists on its soil, reflecting President Donald Trump\u2019s tough stance against the country over the issue. The remarks by White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders came after Trump accused Pakistan of giving nothing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17295,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17293\/revisions\/17295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}