News / Nasir Mahmood - 6 years ago
Pakistan and US are still intertwined despite Trump’s punitive milit ..
After President Trump bluntly accused Pakistan of “lies and deceit” on New Year’s Day, then suspended all security aid to the longtime U.S. military ally, Pakistan was widely described as acting like a jilted lover, secretly stricken but publicly defiant and pretending not to care. Now, a flurry of quieter military and diplomatic contacts over the past two weeks have patched things up, but only to a point