PESHAWAR: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) legislator of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly Fakhr-e-Azam Wazir Wednesday submitted a resolution against US President Donald Trump’s tweet.
The resolution stated that Pakistan has played a vital role in the war against terrorism but the US “did not accept our sacrifices, even though thousands of our citizens were martyred and the country lost millions of dollars during the war on terror.”
The American and NATO forces were fighting in Afghanistan for the last six years but in vain, it said, adding now they laid their responsibilities on the shoulders of Pakistan.
The resolution said it rejected the claim as well as the ‘do more’ policy of Donald Trump.
In the resolution, the KP Assembly recommended the provincial government to ask the federal government to show a strong reaction to Trump’s tweet.
In a withering attack, Trump tweeted on Monday that the US had “foolishly” handed Pakistan more than $33bn in aid in the last 15 years and had been rewarded with “nothing but lies and deceit”.
“They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan, with little help. No more!” he wrote.
The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies & deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools. They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan, with little help. No more!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 1, 2018
On Tuesday, Pakistan’s prime minister, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, chaired a national security committee (NSC) meeting of civilian and military chiefs, focusing on Trump’s tweet. The discussion, which lasted nearly three hours, was brought forward by a day and followed a meeting of army generals.
In a statement issued by the prime minister’s office, the NSC did not name Trump but spoke of “deep disappointment” at the large number of critical comments made by US officials.
“Recent statements and articulation by the American leadership were completely incomprehensible as they contradicted facts manifestly, struck with great insensitivity at the trust between two nations built over generations, and negated the decades of sacrifices made by the Pakistani nation,” it said.
Relations between the US and Pakistan have been strained for years.
