US may withhold USD 255 million aid to Pak |
United States government is reportedly considering to withhold USD 255 million in aid to Pakistan. New York Times report says that the internal debate of Trump administration whether to deny Pakistan the money is a test of whether President Donald Trump will deliver on his threat to punish Islamabad for failing to cooperate on counter-terrorism operations. Now, the Trump administration is strongly considering whether to withhold USD 255 million in aid that it had delayed sending to Islamabad, according to American officials, as a show of dissatisfaction with Pakistan`s broader intransigence toward confronting the terrorist networks that operate there. The report further said that the relation between the two countries have chilled steadily ever since Donald Trump declared that Pakistan “gives safe haven to agents of chaos, violence and terror. In August, the United States—which has provided Pakistan more than USD 33 billion in aid since 2002—had said it was withholding the USD 255 million until Pakistan did more to crackdown on terrorist groups.
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