US president tweets saying Pakistan is providing ‘safe haven to terrorists’ and America was ‘foolish’ to give $33bn in aidDonald Trump has accused Pakistan of “lies and deceit”, saying America was foolish to have given Islamabad more than $33bn in aid. Trump began the new year by launching an attack on Islamabad in his first tweet of 2018, saying Pakistan was providing “safe haven to the terrorists we hunt”. “They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan, with little help. Pakistan had refused to allow the US access to a captured militant from the Taliban-linked Haqqani network. Pakistan’s foreign minister, Khawaja Asif, told Geo television on Monday that Pakistan has already refused to “do more” for the United States.

Source: The Guardian January 01, 2018 17:00 UTC