NEVER FORGET 26/11: Pentagon once again asks Islamabad to target terrorists thriving on Pak soil

On the eve of the 10th anniversary of 26/11 Mumbai Terror attacks, the United States has again asked Pakistan to act on Lashkar-e-Taiba, the terror group behind the carnage that left 166 dead. 

Responding to a question from WION, Pentagon spokesperson  Lieutenant Colonel Koné Faulkner said, “We continue to press Pakistan to indiscriminately target all terrorist groups, including the Haqqani Network and LeT.” 

On Pakistan’s role in Afghanistan, Faulkner said, “No country has more to gain than Pakistan from a peaceful Afghanistan.  We continue to call on Pakistan to arrest, expel or bring the Taliban leadership to the negotiating table.”

The development comes days after US President Donald Trump slammed Pakistan for not doing enough on terror and providing safe haven to 9/11 mastermind Osama Bin Laden. In daring raid from across the border in Afghanistan US special forces launched an operation on 2nd April 2011 at Osama Bin Laden’s compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed him. US President has also lashed out at Pakistan on Twitter saying  we paid “Pakistan Billions of Dollars & they never told us he was living there.”

Pentagon also confirmed that it has suspended aid to Pakistan saying that last January “the Coalition Support Funds security assistance the US provides to Pakistan was suspended” and this “suspension remains in place totalling approximately $1.66 billion in security assistance dollars to Pakistan that has been frozen to date.”

In an interview earlier this week, Trump said that aid was cut since Pakistan doesn’t “do a damn thing” for united states.