{"id":29602,"date":"2018-01-10T16:12:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T21:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29602"},"modified":"2018-01-10T16:12:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T21:12:41","slug":"pakistan-suspends-military-and-intelligence-cooperation-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29602","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Suspends Military And Intelligence Cooperation With US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-01-10\/pakistan-suspends-military-and-intelligence-cooperation-us\">Pakistan Suspends Military And Intelligence Cooperation With US<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\">\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>In the wake of President Trump\u2019s twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-01-01\/trump-blasts-pakistan-giving-safe-haven-terrorists-threatens-pull-aid\">outburst last week<\/a>, alleging that Pakistan has given the U.S. \u201cnothing but lies and deceit\u201d accompanied by the suspension of US financial aid, <strong>Defense Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1381839\/pakistan-has-suspended-military-and-intelligence-cooperation-with-us-defence-minister\">declared<\/a> that military and intelligence cooperation with the United States are suspended, during an address at the Institute of Strategic Studies in Islamabad on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Khan, who was speaking at a seminar titled: &#8220;Contours of Security Environment of Pakistan,\u2019 said the U.S. is now facing defeat in Afghanistan after a 16-year war, despite spending billions of dollars. <strong>With defeat imminent, he claims the U.S. is using Pakistan as a \u2018scapegoat,\u2019 rather than defending and securing the Pak-Afghan border.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPakistan does not want to put a price on its sacrifices but wants them to be recognized,\u201d Khan added that\u00a0Pakistan would not allow Afghanistan\u2019s\u00a0war to be fought on Pakistani soil.<\/p>\n<p>Military relations between Pakistan and the United States have stretched as far back as 1947. The Afghan-Pakistan Center of Excellence is a division of United States Central Command (USCENTCOM), with military operations sometimes jointly focused on Afghanistan and Pakistan. It\u2019s\u00a0widely known that CIA drone bases and U.S. military logistical operations for Afghanistan are located in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Kahn emphasized, &#8220;<strong>a wide field of intelligence cooperation and defense cooperation have been suspended,\u201d <\/strong>but added the supply lines for NATO troops in Afghanistan would remain open. There was little mention of the fate of CIA drone bases operating in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Khan stated, &#8220;you see the facilities that we have extended to them (Americans) are still in operation. We have not suspended them. But there is also a wide field of intelligence cooperation and defense cooperation which we have suspended.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan Suspends Military And Intelligence Cooperation With US In the wake of President Trump\u2019s twitter outburst last week, alleging that Pakistan has given the U.S. \u201cnothing but lies and deceit\u201d accompanied by the suspension of US financial aid, Defense Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan declared that military and intelligence cooperation with the United States are suspended, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2487,135,8169,7844,17869,2712,17868,525,1745,827],"class_list":["post-29602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-afghanistan","tag-cia","tag-cooperation","tag-donald-trump","tag-institute-of-strategic-studies","tag-intelligence","tag-khurram-dastgir-khan","tag-military","tag-pakistan","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29603,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29602\/revisions\/29603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}