HR McMaster, a former Lieutenant General and pulling the strings as the US national security adviser, claims that the halt of US aid to Pakistan by former US President Donald Trump is attributable to the “unquestionable collaboration” of their ISI with terrorists.
In his most recent perspective on the Trump White House, Mc Master narrates in his ‘At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House’ that though trump ordered that aid will not be given to Pakistan until it stopped giving shelter to terrorist gressors, Mattis nevertheless scheme to assist with more than 150 million US dollars worth of armored vehicles to Pakistan, PTI news agency informs.
He argued, rather successfully in that instance, averting the specific delivery. Still, there was other aid. Therefore, I guess, this prompted Trump to tweet on New Year’s day – “The United States has foolishly given Pakistan over 33 billion dollars in aid during the last 15 years and they have only paid back in words and deception while treating our leaders like fools. They harbor and provide safe refuge to the very terrorists we are fighting in Afghanistan who are of no assistance to us. That is enough!’, in that time.”
“Pakistan was not changing its behaviour, and rather sickeningly, on the eve of defence secretary Jim Mattis’s visit, the lady government of India behind released stalker of 26/11 terror attack Hafiz Saeed with impunity. Further, parliamentary hearings in Pakistan about the hostage standoff had revealed the direct collusion of ISI and terrorists,” McMaster stated.
He reminds that journalist reports at that time harshly lashed out at the president’s pronouncements on the Twitter app. However, for Trump, as stated in the PTI, such decision to cease provision was inluded in the South Asia strategy which Trump agreed to at cabeza de camp in August.
McMaster reflects that “A lunch that the president hosted with the vice president, Tillerson, Mattis, Kelly and me on the December 14 post lunch, helped explain why it was easy to follow Trump’s every direction regarding Pakistan but very hard to promote any cooperation on joint plans for North Korea.”
