{"id":81584,"date":"2018-09-03T07:46:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T11:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=81584"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:34:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:34:11","slug":"pakistan-not-getting-300-million-and-palestinian-refugee-agency-gets-funding-cut-off-entirely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81584","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan not getting $300 million and Palestinian refugee agency gets funding cut off entirely."},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Trump administration is cutting funding to Paki and Palestinian groups.\u00a0 I guess President Trump is expecting something in return for that cash or doesn’t support their efforts in the first place.<\/p>\n

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The US military says it is cancelling $300m (\u00a3230m) in aid to Pakistan over what it calls Islamabad’s failure to take action against militant groups.\u00a0President Donald Trump has previously accused Pakistan of deceiving the US while receiving billions of dollars. Pentagon spokesman Lt Col Kon\u00e9 Faulkner said the US military would aim to spend the money on other “urgent priorities”.<\/p>\n

The move, which needs to be approved by the US Congress, is\u00a0part of a broader suspension announced in January<\/a>.\u00a0 The US state department has criticised Pakistan, a key ally, for failing to deal with terrorist networks operating on its soil, including the Haqqani network and the Afghan Taliban.<\/p>\n

“We continue to press Pakistan to indiscriminately target all terrorist groups,” Col Faulkner said in a statement on Saturday, adding that the $300m aid – which had earlier been suspended – should be used elsewhere due to “a lack of Pakistani decisive actions” in tackling the issue.<\/p>\n

The announcement comes just days before US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is due to visit Pakistan to meet the country’s new prime minister, Imran Khan.<\/p>\n

The US and others have long complained that Pakistan provides a safe haven to militant networks, allowing them to carry out cross-border attacks in Afghanistan – something that Islamabad denies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The news is even worse for the poor plight of the Palestinians.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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The poor children…think of the poor childern.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The US and Israel also disagree with Unrwa on which Palestinians are refugees with a right to return to the homes they fled following the 1948 war.<\/p>\n

Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN, said earlier this week that Unrwa exaggerated the number of Palestinian refugees, and needed to reform.<\/p>\n

“You’re looking at the fact that, yes, there’s an endless number of refugees that continue to get assistance, but more importantly, the Palestinians continue to bash America,” she said.<\/p>\n

The state department says the US is contributing a “very disproportionate share of the burden of Unrwa’s costs”.<\/p>\n

It complains of a business model and fiscal practices, linked to an “exponentially expanding community of entitled beneficiaries”, which is “unsustainable and has been in crisis mode for many years”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I appears as if President Trump doesn’t want to give money to people who attack our friends and slander our good deeds.\u00a0 What will this administration do next?\u00a0 These are crazy times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Trump administration is cutting funding to Paki and Palestinian groups.\u00a0 I guess President Trump is … Pakistan not getting $300 million and Palestinian refugee agency gets funding cut off entirely.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}