WASHINGTON: A day after firing a tirade at Pa
kistan during an interview to the Fox News, US President Donald Trump on Monday repeated his rants saying that Washington stopped paying Islamabad because “they would take our money and do nothing for us.”
“They [Pa
kistan] were just one of many countries that take from the United States without giving anything in return That’s ENDING!” the US president wrote on his Twitter handle. “We no longer pay Pa
kistan the $Billions because they would take our money and do nothing for us, Bin Laden
being a prime example, Afghanistan
being anothe
r,R21; he said in
a series of tweets.
In another tweet, Trump said the US had paid Pa
kistan billions of dollars and they never informed that Osama bin Laden was living there. He said the US should have captured Osama bin Laden long before the 2011 Abbottabad raid. “Of course we should have captured Osama Bin Laden long before we did. I pointed him out in my book just BEFORE
the attack on the World Trade Center. President Clinton famously missed his shot. We paid Pa
kistan Billions of Dollars & they never told us he was living there,” he added.
A day earlier, Trump had defended his administration’s decision to pull hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to Pa
kistan, saying the country “doesn’t do a damn thing for us.”
In an exclusive interview with Fox News, the US president had charged Pa
kistan for helping Osama bin Laden hide in the country. “You know, living – think of this – living in Pa
kistan, beautifully in Pa
kistan in what I guess they considered a nice mansion, I don’t know, I’ve seen nice
r,R21; Trump had said, referring to bin Laden and his former compound in Abbottabad.
“But living in Pa
kistan right next to the military academy, everybody in Pa
kistan knew he was there,” he said. “And we give Pa
kistan $1.3 billion a year. … [bin Laden] lived in Pa
kistan, we’re supporting Pa
kistan, we’re giving them $1.3 billion a year -which we don’t give them anymore, by the way, I ended it because they don’t do anything for us, they don’t do a damn thing for us,” he added.
Published in Daily Times, November 20th 2018.
