{"id":656216,"date":"2017-08-28T14:09:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T14:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/pakistan-cancels-senior-us-diplomats-visit-amid-row-over-trumps-afghanistan-remarks\/"},"modified":"2017-08-28T14:09:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T14:09:25","slug":"pakistan-cancels-senior-us-diplomats-visit-amid-row-over-trumps-afghanistan-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/pakistan-cancels-senior-us-diplomats-visit-amid-row-over-trumps-afghanistan-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan cancels senior US diplomat\u2019s visit amid row over Trump\u2019s Afghanistan remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><div>\n<div class=\"article__text text  js-mediator-article\">\n<p>Acting Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Alice Wells would have been the first high-profile visitor from the US since Trumps\u2019 new Afghanistan strategy was announced last Monday.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry and the US embassy in Islamabad released similarly-worded statements saying that her visit has been postponed at Pakistan\u2019s request until a <em>\u201cmutually convenient time.\u201d<\/em> Neither side said when such a time may come or why Pakistan decided to pull the plug on the visit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"arcticle__read-more read-more\">\n<p>    <a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"\/news\/400671-pakistan-scapegoat-us-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"read-more__cover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/599d921cfc7e9361758b4567.jpg\" alt=\"&#xA9;&#xA0;Munir uz Zaman\" \/><span class=\"read-more__footer\">Pakistan fires back at US, asks not to be made \u2018scapegoat\u2019 for Afghan failures<\/span><br \/>\n    <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pakistan Today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pakistantoday.com.pk\/2017\/08\/27\/us-pakistan-talks-put-off-for-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> that the visit was canceled both because the US State Department didn\u2019t give Pakistan enough time to prepare for it and to send a signal to Washington that Islamabad was unhappy with Trump\u2019s remarks on Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSince sentiments of betrayal are running deep at the moment, the aggrieved party feels it\u2019s not appropriate to hold a dialogue. Hence, Pakistan has asked for the postponement of the visit,\u201d<\/em> a ruling party minister told the paper on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistani official said that Pakistan felt being \u201cbackstabbed\u201d by the US administration after years of cooperation with Washington.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe have sacrificed our lives while fighting the terrorists; we have suffered financial, infrastructural and institutional destruction but still we are being blamed by our so-called strategic partners. It\u2019s about time we rethink our policies,\u201d<\/em> the cabinet member was cited as saying.<\/p>\n<p>In his speech on Afghanistan last week, Trump accused Pakistan of harboring \u201cagents of chaos\u201d and providing \u201csafe havens\u201d to terrorist groups operating in Afghanistan. Responding to the criticism, Islamabad said the US should make it a \u201cscapegoat\u201d for its own failures in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/400596-us-pakistan-taliban-tillerson-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE:\u00a0US could cut aid to Pakistan, wants more help in fighting Taliban \u2013 Tillerson<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pakistan was also angered at Trump\u2019s call to India to help more in Afghanistan. Islamabad sees its regional archrival New Delhi as a destructive force in Afghanistan, seeking to hurt Pakistan by seeding chaos in the neighboring country.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, a small group of religious students held an anti-US protest in the southern city of Karachi. Police used teargas to prevent the group from reaching the American consulate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source Article from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/401144-pakistan-us-visit-protest\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=RSS\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/401144-pakistan-us-visit-protest\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=RSS<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Views: 0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acting Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Alice Wells would have been the first high-profile visitor from the US since Trumps\u2019 new Afghanistan strategy was announced last Monday. On Sunday, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry and the US embassy in Islamabad released similarly-worded statements saying that her visit has been postponed at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":875,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1721],"tags":[650,27256,31839,651,27079,15260,23818],"class_list":["post-656216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-news","tag-afghanistan","tag-cancels","tag-diplomat","tag-pakistan","tag-senior","tag-trump","tag-visit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/875"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}