help us more with Afghanistan +Pakistan's safe havens for terrorist organizations +WASHINGTON/NEW DELHI: US President Donald Trump on Monday night reached out to India seeking an enhanced role for New Delhi, especially in the economic field, to bring peace and stability in Afghanistan India, the world's largest democracy, is a key security and economic partner of the United States, the US President said. "In his first formal address to the nation as commander-in-chief, Trump discarded his previous criticism of the 16-year-old war as a waste of time and money, admitting things looked different from "behind the desk in the Oval Office. Security assistance to Afghanistan was "not a blank check" he said, warning he would not send the military to "construct democracies in faraway lands or create democracies in our own image. "We have been paying Pakistan billions and billions of dollars at the same time they are housing the very terrorists that we are fighting," he said. "Trump warned he could reduce security assistance for Pakistan unless the nuclear-armed nation cooperates more in preventing militants from using safe havens on its soil.

Source: Times of India August 22, 2017 02:56 UTC