WASHINGTON – The Trump Administration has suspended security assistance toPakistan because it failed to address the problem of militant safe havensinside its territory, the White House has said.
“The (Trump) Administration has been clear to Pakistani leaders that itexpects them to constructively address the problem of militant safe havensin Pakistan,” an official from the National Security Council, the WhiteHouse, told PTI.
“Because Pakistan failed to address the problem, the Administrationsuspended security assistance,” the official said, requesting anonymity.
“We remain hopeful that Pakistan will realize it is in its own interest tocooperate with the US strategy in Afghanistan,” said the officialresponding to Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan accusing President DonaldTrump of false assertion in his country’s fight against terror.
First in an interview to Fox news on Sunday and then in two tweets onMonday, Trump had accused Pakistan of not doing “a damn thing” for theUnited States.