{"id":12784,"date":"2018-01-12T17:44:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T17:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=12784"},"modified":"2018-01-12T17:44:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T17:44:53","slug":"pakistanis-feel-betrayed-by-us-army-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/pakistanis-feel-betrayed-by-us-army-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistanis feel &#8216;betrayed&#8217; by US: Army chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s army chief has slammed the United States for President Donald Trump&#8217;s\u00a0chastising remarks against Pakistan&#8217;s leaders over\u00a0their effort to fight terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistani Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa\u00a0told US Central Command Chief General Joseph Votel\u00a0on the phone that the \u201c<em>entire Pakistani nation felt betrayed over US recent statements&#8221;<\/em> after Trump said that\u00a0Islamabad\u00a0 was full of &#8220;lies and deceit&#8221;\u00a0and in reality supported the terrorists, Pakistan&#8217;s army said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said the call, which had been made by Votel, had been made earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>The US President, in a recent tweet, said Pakistanis <em>\u201chave given us nothing but lies &amp; deceit\u201d<\/em>, and instead of fighting terrorists, Pakistanis gave them a \u201csafe haven\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s administration last week announced the suspension of about $2 billion in security aid to Pakistan, triggering a huge backlash in the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why Trump is mad at Pakistan<\/li>\n<li>Pakistan summons US ambassador over Trump remarks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2018\/01\/01\/547485\/US-Trump-Pakistan-Afghanistan\">\n<div class=\"oembed\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2018\/01\/01\/547485\/US-Trump-Pakistan-Afghanistan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/media.presstv.com\/photo\/20180101\/f9b309f2-8e71-41f3-9e4e-ea4eb03dc403.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"title\">PressTV-US president threatens to cut Pakistan aid<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The US president accused Pakistan of giving Washington &#8220;nothing but lies and deceit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s military spokesman Major\u00a0General\u00a0Asif Ghafoor added in the army statement that Votel, on behalf of Washington, voiced concern about Afghans using Pakistan as a staging ground for attacks inside Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Ghafoor said Votel gave assurance, however, about Pakistan&#8217;s sovereignty, saying that the US military was not contemplating any unilateral action inside Pakistan and depended on Pakistani forces to fight the Afghan Taliban and Haqqani network that target American troops in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, there have been instances of cross-border US drone strikes and other US military missions from Afghanistan, targeting Taliban and other militant groups there.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20180112\/9add2e99-26ae-40e9-b722-2c440ee053c3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"313\" \/><figcaption>Osama Bin Laden was killed by a US navy SEAL Team in Pakistan in 2011.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2011, a US Navy SEAL team from Afghanistan launched a cross-border attack on the Abbottabad hideout of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, killing the alleged mastermind of September\u00a011 attacks.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, a US assassination drone targeted the then-leader of the Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, in Pakistan&#8217;s southwestern province of Baluchistan, prompting protests from Islamabad of a violation of sovereignty.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan&#8217;s army chief has slammed the United States for President Donald Trump&#8217;s\u00a0chastising remarks against Pakistan&#8217;s leaders over\u00a0their effort to fight terrorism. Pakistani Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa\u00a0told US Central Command Chief General Joseph Votel\u00a0on the phone that the \u201centire Pakistani nation felt betrayed over US recent statements&#8221; after Trump said that\u00a0Islamabad\u00a0 was full of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12787,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12784\/revisions\/12787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}