Pakistan on Friday said it was being treated like a “whipping boy”, after Washington suspended $1.15 billion in security aid and the delivery of military equipment to it for failing to clamp down on the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani Network terror groups and dismantle their safe havens.
“We do not have any alliance” with the US, said Khawaja Asif, Pakistan’s foreign minister, in an interview with Geo TV on Friday.
“This is not how allies behave.” Asif had described Washington in a TV interview the previous day as “a friend who always betrays”. The freezing of all security assistance to