Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders have submitted adjournment motion in National Assembly regarding US President Donald Trump’s speech against Pakistan yesterday.
Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Asad Umar and Arif Alvi were the leaders who filed the motion.
The motion requested the speaker National Assembly to discuss US President’s speech and its possible repercussions for the country.
In an address that is being touted by many as over the top, Trump took a tough but not a completely unexpected approach regarding Pakistan-US relations, in which he castigated Pakistan for offering safe havens to “agents of chaos”.
“We can no longer be silent about Pakistan’s safe havens for terrorist organisations,” he said, warning that vital aid could be cut.
“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. “That will have to change and that will change immediately.”
Trump’s speech comes amid a month of serious turmoil for his administration, which has seen several top White House officials fired and revelations that members of Trump’s campaign are being investigated by a federal grand jury.
He sought in his address to convince Americans weary of his controversial off-the-cuff remarks. He also sought to pre-empt a backlash from his base who shared his previous disdain for military entanglements on foreign soil.
“I studied Afghanistan in great detail and from every conceivable angle,” he said, hoping to show he has sufficiently pondered the decision to send more young Americans into mortal danger.
