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Pakistan and US are still intertwined despite Trump’s punitive military aid cut: WP
January 26, 2018
WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (INP): 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. At a deeper level, analysts here say, both partners acknowledge that their relationship is beset by irreconcilable differences but that neither can afford a divorce, Washington Post reported on Friday............................ INP/AH
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