US in damage control as senior diplomat visits Islamabad

[Devil Soul]

Senior US State Department official meets Tehmina Janjua in Islamabad
January 15, 2018
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By GEO NEWS
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Pakistan

Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua meetingPrincipal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Alice Wells on Monday. Photo: Geo News
ISLAMABAD: Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Alice Wells reached Pakistan on Monday, informed the foreign office.

The US official had a meeting with Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua, in which bilateral relations between Islamabad and Washington were discussed.

Matters related to regional security situation were also discussed by the officials, the foreign office informed the press.

This is third visit by Wells to Pakistan since August 2017.

Earlier, US President Donald Trump in his New Year tweet, accused Pakistan of lies and deceit. "They give safe havens to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan, with little help. No more!" he said on January 1.

The incident led to heightened tensions between Pakistan and the US. Later, on January 5, the US announced that it is suspending the transfer of military equipment and security-related funds to Pakistan.

On January 12, Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa received two phone calls from US Centcom Commander General Joseph Votel and one from a US senator over the week to discuss Pak-US security cooperation following the controversial tweet, the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) informed.

The army chief told the US officials that Pakistan will continue its "sincere counter-terrorism efforts" even without US financial support in accordance with its own national interest and will remain committed to bringing the effort to its logical conclusion along with other stakeholders.

 

[Imran Khan]

why we welcome them ?

 

[Enigma_]

lol after all the public insults and humiliation we still welcome them with open arms. Why defend our own country when the entire establishment is nothing but a bunch of dogs that are willing to sell out the country to the highest bidder?

 

[IceCold]

lol after all the public insults and humiliation we still welcome them with open arms. Why defend our own country when the entire establishment is nothing but a bunch of dogs that are willing to sell out the country to the highest bidder?

Keep emotions aside and judge from a realistic point of view. What you will find out is that it is the US that is rushing to Pakistan and not otherwise. Apparently Pakistan has done something that has made US officials sweat and run to Pakistan after Trump tweet.

 

[Enigma_]

Keep emotions aside and judge from a realistic point of view. What you will find out is that it is the US that is rushing to Pakistan and not otherwise. Apparently Pakistan has done something that has made US officials sweat and run to Pakistan after Trump tweet.

Forget emotion? Why? Publicly the US keeps on talking cr@p and shitting on the country and its people whilst giving our officials chocolates in the background and they happily take it. PR is an important asset you know?

 

[IceCold]

Forget emotion? Why? Publicly the US keeps on talking cr@p and shitting on the country and its people whilst giving our officials chocolates in the background and they happily take it. PR is an important asset you know?

So what exactly have we given away to the US that would negate our stance? Like I said to another individual, we have suspended military and Intelligence cooperation not talking. Because you cannot just stop talking all the sudden. You continue to talk however you can chose the level of cooperation you want to keep and that is what we are doing. We have degraded our level of cooperation with them. We have told them to shove that 2 billion and this stance is validated by the fact that their general is now saying that Pakistanis dont care about the 2 billion, they want their strategic concerns to be heard. What does this tells us? It tells us that Pakistan has told US categorically what will happen should US try to move further with its threats and scapegoating Pakistan.
Which is why what you are seeing is that it is US officials that are running to Pakistan and not the other way round.

Most important is kaun kisko bluff maar raha hai.

Instead of taking cheap shots try to open your eyes and see whats really happening:

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/pakistan-wants-strategic-concerns-addressed.539173/
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/paki...se-on-national-interests-us-historian.539174/

Now read instead of trying to be a D

 

[Enigma_]

So what exactly have we given away to the US that would negate our stance? Like I said to another individual, we have suspended military and Intelligence cooperation not talking. Because you cannot just stop talking all the sudden. You continue to talk however you can chose the level of cooperation you want to keep and that is what we are doing. We have degraded our level of cooperation with them. We have told them to shove that 2 billion and this stance is validated by the fact that their general is now saying that Pakistanis dont care about the 2 billion, they want their strategic concerns to be heard. What does this tells us? It tells us that Pakistan has told US categorically what will happen should US try to move further with its threats and scapegoating Pakistan.
Which is why what you are seeing is that it is US officials that are running to Pakistan and not the other way round.

But they aren't listening are they? Nor have they stopped with the public bs. Either I want to hear an apology from Donald's twitter account (because of that c*nt's ego) or any sort of apology to the PEOPLE of Pakistan from the US government. The bloody jokers in our government need to make that happen or tell them very explicitly to go f*ck themselves because that's what they told our countrymen and our sacrifices. Unless the US does that screw all their bullsh*t gestures. What a joke of a country we are, people try to justify our enemies.

 

[IceCold]

But they aren't listening are they? Nor have they stopped with the public bs. Either I want to hear an apology from Donald's twitter account (because of that c*nt's ego) or any sort of apology to the PEOPLE of Pakistan from the US government. The bloody jokers in our government need to make that happen or tell them very explicitly to go f*ck themselves because that's what they told our countrymen and our sacrifices. Unless the US does that screw all their bullsh*t gestures. What a joke of a country we are, people try to justify our enemies.

So if they arent listening, do you think we are? Many in US including their previous ambassador have said that Pakistan will not move on its strategic interests and no amount of money will make them. Yes our political establishment is full of jokers but military too has a say in these matters which is why i dont see Pakistan doing anything under US demands that would jeopardize our interests in Afghanistan. Trump can go and **** himself or his indian buddies.

 

[Devil Soul]

US in damage control as senior diplomat visits Islamabad


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ISLAMABAD: A senior US diplomat on Monday arrived in Islamabad to hold meetings with Pakistani officials, in a first visit from a senior American official since President Trump’s New Year Tweet in which he accused Pakistan of giving Washington nothing but “lies and deceit”.

Citing Pakistan Foreign Office, Geo TV reported that Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Alice Wells reached Pakistan on Monday and held a meeting with Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua.

According to the TV cahnnel, bilateral relations between the two countries came under discussion in the meeting.

The visit comes on the heels of a phone call from US Cencom Commander to the Pakistan’s army chief on Saturday in which he said Pakistan has suffered hugely due to great power contestation in the region.

The statement cited General Bajwa as saying Pakistan will not seek resumption of aid but expect honorable recognition of its contributions, sacrifices and unwavering resolve in fight against terrorism for peace and stability in the region.

Tension between the United States and Pakistan has grown over US. complaints that the Afghan Taliban and Haqqani network that target American troops in Afghanistan are allowed to take shelter on Pakistani soil.

The U.S. military’s Central Command said on Friday it was in “continuous communication” with Pakistan’s military, after Pakistan’s army said its top general “felt betrayed” at U.S. criticism it was not doing enough to fight terrorism.

Trump’s administration announced the suspension of about $2 billion in security aid to Islamabad over accusations Islamabad is playing a double game in Afghanistan.

 

[Winchester]

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Alice

Senior diplomat?

Nice spin by the media.

 

[Menace2Society]

Apology from donald duck on behalf of US then move forward.

 

[Baby Leone]

good that only foreign secretary is meeting with her no one else even foreign minister should not meet her only counterpart meetings should be done.

 

[Ahmet Pasha]

Pakistan at this time should not bow. It shouldnt take any bait. Or else it may spell disaster. Rough it out for the time being

 

[Flash_Ninja]

Time to close all the US consulates, and cancel their plan to build their fortress embassy in Islamabad.

Pakistan should fully cut civillian cooperation too, at least until Trump publicly apologises rather than these two bit officials.

 

[IceCold]

Stopped being interested in reading your points of view, not that it ever mattered. So nah.

They are not my point of view, they are of US. So again stop being an Indiot and read.

And yeah they matter.