Karachi: United States President Donald Trump tirade against Pakistan made headlines in numerous local and international publications.
“They don’t do a thing for us,” said Trump about Pakistan in an interview on Fox News Sunday to anchor Chris Wallace. The US president’s remarks came after he tried to defend his government’s decision to reduce military aid for Pakistan.
Amid the meeting, Trump asserted that Pakistan, in spite of knowing the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden, harbored the psychological oppressor in Abbottabad before the US commandos, in the long run, gunned him down in an attack in 2011.
The president advocated that the choice to cut off guide for Pakistan came because of Pakistan’s ineptitude in disposing of container Laden.
The verbal duel between the two pioneers heightened when Prime Minister Imran Khan struck back and featured that Pakistan is among the few partners who endured 75,000 setbacks in the US War on Terror in Afghanistan.
‘Pakistan Angered By Trump ‘s Claims That It Does Nothing For US’
The New York Times
On the event, media outlets all inclusive revealed the occurrence with alternate points of view. Driving American day by day The New York Times canvassed PM Imran’s rejoinder in a feature that perused ‘Pakistan Angered By Trump Claims That It Does Nothing For US’.
Be that as it may, the NYT pegged the underlying story with Trump comments on Pakistan to the US president’s refusal to sit for a meeting in the Russia test. Comfortable end of the article, however, the distribution featured Trump feedback coordinated at US Navy SEAL administrator William H McRaven for not “catching the driving force behind the 9/11 assaults”.
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The news outlet, be that as it may, finished up their piece without including Trump shock towards Pakistan. It just determined Wallace’s inquiry to the president, of whether he would give any credit to Pakistan for bringing canister Laden down.
Trump says ‘obviously’ the U.S. ought to have gotten container Laden sooner
Washington Post
Washington Post, on the event, broke the underlying story with accentuation that US ought to have gotten canister Laden sooner. “Trump says ‘obviously’ US ought to have gotten container Laden sooner,” the Post announced. Furthermore, the distribution expressly expressed the president’s subsequent tweet in which he kept up that “Pakistan and Afghanistan were among numerous nations that take from the US without giving consequently”. The story additionally secured Trump tweet that gotten out Pakistan for not educating the US about canister Laden’s whereabouts regardless of being paid millions.
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 Pakistan Billions of Dollars & they never told us he was living there. Fools!..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 19, 2018
Indian media calls it the “bluntest denunciation of Pakistan by a sitting US president”
Other international publications including Indian news outlets took a rather negative view of the tirade and presented a perspective more in line with their domestic audience.
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Hindustan Times and India Today detailed likewise on the dropping out between the two leads of the states. Trump’s words that “they don’t complete a damn thing for us” remained the most prevalent feature that flashed over the web.
Hindustan Times especially indicated that the US pulled back about $2 billion in the military guide to Pakistan prior this year for not making a move against ‘fear-based oppressors’ working from its dirt. The distribution further articulated that the “US president hit out at Pakistan for giving a place of refuge to ‘operators of mayhem’s and cautioned Islamabad that it has ‘a lot to lose’ by harboring psychological militants”.
India Today named the scene to be the “bluntest condemnation of Pakistan by a sitting US president”.
Nearby media alludes to the episode as ‘tirade against Pakistan’
While the greater part of the western and Indian media voiced the issue just as they were maintaining Trump account, the neighborhood media alluded to the occurrence as ‘tirade against Pakistan’, conveying the country’s advantages to fore.
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In any case, the inclusion wasn’t constrained to the US president’s comments alone. PM Imran’s counter to Trump allegations additionally made swells.
Record needs to be put straight on Mr Trump's tirade against Pakistan: 1. No Pakistani was involved in 9/11 but Pak decided to participate in US War on Terror. 2. Pakistan suffered 75,000 casualties in this war & over $123 bn was lost to economy. US "aid" was a miniscule $20 bn.
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) November 19, 2018
International media’s coverage on PM Imran’s rebuttal against Pakistan
Washington Post, once again, reported on the incident by specifying figures from the premier’s tweet that Pakistan suffered 75,000 casualties and lost $123 billion in the US WoT.
Instead of making Pakistan a scapegoat for their failures, the US should do a serious assessment of why, despite 140000 NATO troops plus 250,000 Afghan troops & reportedly $1 trillion spent on war in Afghanistan, the Taliban today are stronger than before.
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) November 19, 2018
The Post further mentioned PM Imran’s claims that “no Pakistani was involved in the September 11 attacks and that the US only provided a ‘minuscule’ sum in military aid”.
Newswire service Reuters also covered backlash on the US president by the premier in a headline that read “Pakistan PM Imran Khan lashes out at Trump ‘tirade’”.
On the other hand, Voice of America, in a news article, termed the prime minister’s response as ‘slamming’ of “Trump denunciation of Pakistan’s anti-terror efforts”. VOA further stated that “Washington is making Islamabad “a scapegoat” for US “failures” in Afghanistan”.
Trump's tirade against Pak & his claim that that Pak does not do "a damn thing" for the US shd be a lesson for those Pak ldrs who kept appeasing the US esp after 9/11! The renditions; the loss of Pak lives in US WoT; the free space for Raymond Davis & other operatives; etc etc
— Shireen Mazari (@ShireenMazari1) November 19, 2018
We continue to pay in blood for what we did for USA from Beda Ber to fighting wars wich weren't ours.Reinveted our religion to suit US interests,destroyed our tolerant ethos,replaced it with bigotry & intolerance.A relationship of betrayals & sanctions https://t.co/3mDnJZ6GHu
— Khawaja M. Asif (@KhawajaMAsif) November 18, 2018
The international media did not provide coverage to the two ministers though.
