their view is that pakistan needs to take action against the militants that live in pakistan and if pakistan is supporting terrorism i tell my counterparts that we have done more than any other country to defeat terrorism and we will continue to do that in our own interest because of the commitment they've given to the people of pakistan but when you suspend the dialogue, you actually give those militants what they want. every time they come together, something happens and they sit back and wait for the next time you come together. so the objective of the militants are being served. what should actually happen is exactly the opposite. they should stay engaged in work together to reduce its militants both in palestine and india. i think it is a problem that we need to solve by cooperating with each other. >> there is a question about what is pakistan's vision, what does the vision for the future, that sort of how i take this question but maybe a little bit broader or more specifically, it refers to see pat, this is the china economic order which has been a real game changer. it was very notab

owes to pakistan. then there is economic consistency which is not contained health sector, education and others, and then there is security cooperation about eight, about $5 billion. but economic assistance has, over the years, now i'm talking for a long time that this system has also gone through nongovernmental channels, to the ngos and to international agencies. the government and the people of pakistan don't know where that money was being spent. in fact, there's a big reaction now against ngos about what is it they're doing in pakistan. so frankly, nobody pakistan has commented about this suspension of aid. we have actually said we don't need aid. our leadership has said it and i said that what we need is not this kind of transaction relationship, but a relationship based on mutual respect and mutual trust. so that's our response to this a phenomenon. the other, what is it that we can do together to bring peace in afghanistan? we think that we first must come out with a conclusion that there is no

china and pakistan. it was a win-win option for pakistan and a win-win option for china. for china because if you want to come to the -- through the red sea to the mediterranean, you will probably go over the land for 5000 kilometers and then rougthe state another 8000 kilometers to come here. from -- about 2000 kilometers. it will make economic sense that you utilize this link to the -- it would link china to europe and so that is what actually pushed the government to in that direction. it was also the underlying emphasis that the net gain will not be restricted only to the people pakistan and western china. but in good times, it should blossom east and west and should bring prosperity to all. in fact, already extending to afghanistan should they become peaceful because if you go up north from -- the region to benefit afghanistan. it would make economic sense to get into that project. this of course, did not mean -- it meant a lot of avenues of connvity. ... . iluded fiberoptics and lifelines. it is still happening. most of these investments are now almost completed. we

i think the relationship that pakistan and the u.s. got on the invasion was one that the pakistan and the u.s. got out of, and the loss was ours to bear. because all the majority which had been trained on our soil, all the infiltration of terrorist extremist which was left in our peoples minds was left for us to deal with. and america was happy moving away to sanctioning pakistan and moving onto more adventures. >> let me just ask you. did you ever think as a foreign minister of your very conservative country, you would use that word on global television? >> which is? >> oh, the "s" word. >> yes, it's the president of the united states. i have to quote him of what he said. as a representative of pakistan, i have to quote the president of the united states when he chooses to use these words. and that's where we are going. that's where the world is going. >> let me and cryou then becaus pakistan is defensive. and you've laid out a position why you're right and the u.s. is wrong. but isn't it true that the pakistan military has essentiall

pakistan. thank you for being here. he is a member of the foreign service of pakistan. he was the foreign secretary of pakistan. he is a graduate of tufts there he interesting and distinguished career, basically all of the big jobs in the foreign services. we are fortunate to have someone of his caliber representing pakistan at this time. it is obviously a challenging time for relations between the united states and pakistan. everyone is aware of all of that. we need to talk about the challenges in our relationship, and the things that need to be addressed. we want to have a conversation that opens the conversation a bit. i'm going to turn the floor over to the ambassador. please come up. please welcome the ambassador. >> thank you. you very much, all of you for coming. thank you for organizing this event. it will be my pleasure to share with you. month, a lot has happened. i would like to start with that. the unitedthat states government, the administration unveiled the national security strat

is pakistan really responsible? these are all the questions i will leave for the q&a session because i was given a timetable of ten or 15 minutes to speak. why has this relationship oscillated so much and has been a roller coaster? and how do we broaden and strengthen it? how can we broaden the lens? thank you very much for your attention b-17. [applause] >> i will turn the floor over to my colleague. >> thank you for your comments it is an honor to welcome you here it has been two and a half weeks since i started. so let me begin from the school at taft university so before we move on to a range of questions to raise the elephant in the room to deal with a whole range of issues of peace negotiations. but first let me turn to pakistan support and your response would be helpful in part but there is no question that pakistan has made countless sacrifices in blood that the experience in afghanistan i was in pakistan as a told you earlier during parts of the swat campaign. and very cognizant of those soldiers and of tho

is pakistan itself he said pakistan needs to do a self-examination but then and finally there's different kinds of eighty eight involved here the aid to pakistan is direct cash we transfer cash directly to the treasury of the country of pakistan that they can then use to support their military and other programs including sometimes their nuclear programs on the other hand the money that we're giving that it's helping the palestinians is humanitarian assistance so i really think we're talking. but apples and oranges here i think in the case of pakistan the administration has made a really smart move and is going to actually have a better chance of achieving its goals than ever before and they can look at how this time in israel let's that's a much more complicated issue let's tackle each case on its own mr rogers about pakistan you know and everyone knows that there's absolutely no way the americans can move forward in afghanistan without having the bike is that his award how can you alienate them no and expect to get some benefits or help from the in the near future or keep a couple of th

pakistan says it's disappointed with the u.s. decision to suspend aid for security and has been blamed for failing to take action against taliban fighters targeting u.s. troops in afghanistan on monday donald trump tweeted that washington had given pakistan billions of dollars in aid with nothing in return but lies and deceit pakistan has rejected the accusations. it was behind an explosion in the afghan capital kabul that killed at least twenty people in the suicide bomb dogs as security personnel carrying out an operation against illegal drug and alcohol sales isolate previously claimed responsibility for three suicide attacks in kabul in december that killed dozens. large parts of northeastern u.s. and in the grip of a historic winter storm called a bomb in new york's mayor has declared a weather emergency with forecasters predicting up to twenty five centimeters of snow the extreme weather has forced schools and offices to close and many travelers stranded. continues here on al-jazeera of the inside story. of the palestinian

pakistan denies u.s. claims it's not doing enough to fight terrorism as washington pulls a quarter of a billion dollars of aid. and closing the door on open borders countries in europe shang in zone refused to give up passport checks. for the first time in almost a year north korea says it will reopen communications inside the demilitarized zone with south korea the gesture is a prelude to talks scheduled for tuesday between the two rivals. north korea's leader kim jong un has given an order to open the panmunjom hotline between the north and south from three pm on january third to contact south korea regarding the right time for talks and sending a delegation to the peeling chuang winter olympics. we need to keep back in south korea's government welcomes north korea's response to yesterday's offer to restore the public communication channel who would discuss practical affairs regarding yesterday's offer to hold south and north korea talks. graham on webb is a research fellow at the rajaratnam school of i

and no way easier to cross them out into pakistan than to go see them. and we had a lunch together and we spent two dayses together, and i said -- that i thought of daniel pearl when they took the knife out in my proposed execution two of them. but the big difference is and it's all of the difference in the world that i don't have a right to talk about it is that my case they put it back. but when camera was rolling and i look at the man i say okay let's do it it's you and me i thought of nicholas and danielle berk next person kidnapped after daniel pearl kidnapped in 2004 and beheaded. and so -- i began a trip because of this man in 2010 who came up to me after my book came out to go become and find out this was the first reason there are others of why danielle pearl was really kidnapped and looked deeply into his story which i didn't feel was really ever brought out in which -- i found a lot about and write about in the book. so there were multiple reasons why i went back. and there was one final reason to tell you this is that in 2012 -- i was, and as

meanwhile pakistan has summoned the u.s. ambassador over another tweet this one posted by donald trump on new year's day in his first twitter salvo of two thousand and eighteen of the american president accuses arm about of quote nothing but lies and deceit. the united states has foolishly given pakistan more than thirty three billion dollars in aid over the last fifteen years and they have given us nothing but lies and deceit thinking of our leaders as food they give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in afghanistan with little help no more he is again and again venting his frustrations on pakistan over america's failures in afghanistan as they are trapped in a dead end street. trump said tweet has triggered mass protests in pakistan people took to the streets and to burn the us flag and chant anti-american slogans pakistani said that they themselves did not appreciate that donald trump's. it's actually quite human and that is it. is a pox on. the president of us we've heard something. quite contrary to what is actually h

securityis cutting into pakistan.he state department says they are suspending $900 million in assistance. the trump administration said they made the decision citing pakistan's inability to crackdown on terrorism. it does not affect civilian aid to the country and that could go through if is, bob took -- if bad tookove --if islama decisive action against terrorism. reporter: this was the reason given by the security -- by the state department. >> until the government takes decisive action against the taliban and the haqqani network, the united states will suspend that kind of security assistance to pakistan. reporter: it would at least include 200 55 million dollars in foreign military financing, which had already been blocked. of details could suggest the state department is scrambling to align its pololicy with donald trump's january 1 tweet, claiming pakistan gives terrorists a safe haven. onlyly last october, trump raisd pakistan for its work in securing the release of an american woman and her children held by th

so as far as pakistan is concerned it is in the foremost interest of pakistan to have stability in afghanistan because if there is one country which is most adversely affected by the poor conditions in afghanistan or instability in afghanistan is pakistan so how on earth do they think that pakistan would like to destabilize afghanistan and not contribute towards efforts that would really stabilize and make of understand a peaceful country the problem is that firstly america thinks that it can win this war through its might and that it will not succeed it didn't succeed and passed in any country with its mighty force it will not succeed in afghanistan just on the point you were making do such statements like donald trump made diminish pakistan's role in combating terrorism or is the country really not doing enough. well actually if you would recall you know pakistan's military has lost more nearly three thousand of its soldiers and nearly seventy thousand people in pakistan have lost their lives as a consequence of fighting terrorism what more do they want is there any single country which has

pakistan says it's learned not to trust the u.s. any more. sign of conciliation north korea agrees to the first official talks with the south in two years while the u.s. finally accept a request to suspend military exercises during the upcoming in the. day here in moscow you're watching international in our top story the french president's promise to clear the streets of thousands of rough sleeping migrants by the end of twenty seventeen seems to a fall and flat he had promised housing in one form or another but instead they faced police pressure to move on while trying to survive in freezing temperatures charlotte dubinsky reports now from packers the new year may have begun but for these migrants the problem is still the same ahead is yet another freezing night on the streets of paris. no question the president said he wanted to resolve the problem by the end of the year it's not resolved in the neighborhood there are another thirty camps which are settled like this and these migrants are seeking asylum and there is a problem with

and we make mess of payments every year to pakistan they have to help pakistan says moving in on saeed's groups isn't bowing to u.s. pressure it's intended to fulfill its international obligations reuters reports that pakistan was worried it would face u.n. sanctions for failing to crack down on terrorist groups later this month a un security council team will visit to check on its progress natasha going to aim does era at least thirty people have died in peru off to the bus they were traveling in plunged eighteen meters off a cliff onto a rocky beach the bus was carrying fifty seven passengers to the capital lima when it collided with a truck along a narrow stretch of highway known as the devil's cove rescuers have had to climb down to the beach and now battling the tide to recover bodies five survivors have been taken to hospital. you're watching out there much more to come on this program new year new start for can earn the north korean leader's offer of talks is met by yes myself. and we look at the success story of a tiny minority in the jab making a major contribution to the econom

is the director of pakistan studies at the middle east institute is also an analyst on pakistan and afghanistan at the u.s. state department joins us on skype from washington d.c. very good to see you thank you for joining us what do you make of this move by the u.s. why they're doing it well i think what we're seeing here is frustration with pakistan i think the question here is will this tweet which seems to frame where our foreign policy is toward pakistan at the moment whether this will be constructive will not use some reason to believe that the character of the lie that president trump used will have will backfire on this is going to be very difficult for pakistan now to make further concessions if you will to the united states on terrorists and terrorism issue also i would add that so much of this is predicated on the fact that pakistan holds the key to the ending of the or at least the peace possibilities for peace in afghanistan i think that's over stated pakistan has certain leverage over the taliban but cannot dictate to them is do you think it is exaggerated do you think the u.s. ha

sixteen to give pakistan to strengthen pakistan in the water against terrorism but all these a promise is went. into the dustbin because of pakistan did not get any kind of substantial are the solid. solid help our sport from the united states and now our distain when they are going to suspend their military aid to pakistan so this is this was already up in the air and pakistan was not expecting this because biased on to have had a very strong partnership with the china and the foreign policy of the pakistan for the last couple of years is going to be changed now because the things and the dynamics in the region especially in south asia is going to be completely changed and then of course it's the way that this is. initiated all this on twitter i suppose there is a lot of diplomacy going on behind the scenes you would think or not. i think i personally think being analyser that the that the diplomats you don't want to comes to twitter because someone is going to end up in the morning and going to be fodder tweets there is no writing that is that is that i call that the terminology i us

twelve of them fled across the country to pakistan.ey gave them codename, baker , mason and so forth give them passports, put them in the pakistani army to train them. he told me, this was important. in 1973 and then he went to the embassy and asked for money. i've been unable to find out if we said yes and gave the money, but in any way, 1975, these young men hundreds came over and they brought over the professor who gave them the books and they called themselves. [inaudible] it means holy warrior. they launched attacks against government installations in afghanistan. most of them were killed or captured in july 1979, robert gates has written about this in his book and from the shadows, his memoir being head of the ncaa and they said in an interview in 1998 with the french newspaper magazine, the cia, meaning the united states , jimmy carter's administration began to fund secretly, july 1979, the group in order too, and these are not my words, lure the soviet union into afghanistan to pay it back for backing the vietcong and the north

pakistan is rejecting the u.s. allegations its envoy to the un tells al-jazeera we have contributed and sacrificed the most in fighting international terrorism and carried out the largest counterterrorism operation anywhere in the world the us spokespersons should not shift the blame for their own mistakes and failures onto others they went on to say pakistan's cooperation is not based on any consideration of a need for them on national interests and principles. is awful just vile is an analyst on pakistan a professor of international relations and applied the awesome university he says a move like this should not have been a surprise to policymakers in pakistan. the americans are not asking about the half was practically they are asking about the how can a network which pakistan is denying that it did karli network i mean there from the taliban fighting all good that it does not possess any see if have been in pakistan because since yesterday our before yesterday if you see pakistan has once again to be uprooted i

well the foreign minister of pakistan has issued a fierce response to trump accusing pakistan of providing safe havens for terrorists there fighting in afghanistan and not one tweet but three take a listen for yourself you ask what we've done from our bases you carried out fifty seven thousand eight hundred attacks in afghanistan thousands of our civilians and soldiers became victims of the war you initiated we stood by you treated your enemy as i wrote we feel guantanamo bay now history teaches us not to blindly trust the us we are sorry they were not be but we were not to mean ourselves any more and the foreign minister hasn't exactly held back when it comes to this particular issue he even said in the past that the terrorists that pakistan is accused of harboring were once quote darlings of the us who are being wind in dined in the white house so trumps tweets rightfully struck a nerve and immediately following those tweets pakistani officials converge for an emergency security meeting to discuss the issue but pakistanis in general haven't taken trump's tweet so kindly and ironically en

and we make massive payments every year to pakistan they have to help pakistan says moving in on saeed's groups isn't bowing to u.s. pressure it's intended to fulfil its international obligations reuters reports that pakistan was worried it would face un sanctions for failing to crack down on terrorist groups later this month a un security council team will visit to check on its progress natasha going to aim does era well inside pakistan supporters have sight of been protesting against them of the has more on that from as on the bot. the progress on the government had moved to ban very sage jagjit the outfit been working across bar get on a national day of doctors and respect among the people in the country however to move will be seen by them as an attempt to die for their work in this country they're already waging. starting in the city of karachi and are now threatening to block the grand trunk road a major whitetail highway raid in pakistan the pakistani foreign minister on the other hand also lashing out at the united states. being blamed for the united states fairly or not don and

this is a challenging time in pakistan u.s. relations we must see decisive action against terrorist groups parading on their territory and we make massive payments every year to pakistan they have to help pakistan says moving in on saeed's groups isn't bowing to u.s. pressure it's intended to fulfil its international obligations reuters reports that pakistan was worried it would face u.n. sanctions for failing to crack down on terrorist groups later this month a un security council team will visit to check on its progress natasha going to aim al-jazeera. south korea has accepted the north rare offer of talks proposing that the two sides meet next tuesday seoul said they would mainly focus on north korea's participation in the upcoming winter olympics which are being held in the south but it's with reports. in the freezing environment of the winter olympics there might be a chance for a foreign relations between south and north korea hopes are being raised following the new year address by came north korea's leader suggested sen

well the foreign minister of pakistan has issued a fierce response to trump accusing pakistan of providing safe havens for terrorists there fighting in afghanistan in not one tweet but three take a listen for yourself you ask what we've done from our bases you carried out fifty seven thousand eight hundred attacks in afghanistan thousands of civilians and soldiers became victims of the war you initiated we stood by you treated your enemy as i wrote we feel guantanamo bay now history teaches us not to blindly trust the us we are sorry they were not be but we were not to mean ourselves any more and the foreign minister hasn't exactly held back when it comes to this particular issue he even said in the past that the terrorists that pakistan is accused of harboring were once quote darlings of the us who are being wind in dined in the white house so trump's tweets rightfully struck a nerve and immediately following those tweets pakistani officials converged for an emergency security meeting to discuss the issue but pakistanis in general haven't taken trump's tweet so kindly and ironically enoug

whatever you decide because pakistan is a member but pakistan has many times rejected the us decision even if. it had been about how to save the other issue is that in pakistan the judiciary is now it is only independent if has to put in sec again to remove a sitting prime minister so it can deliver a decision there fly anywhere there is a government decision in pakistan halfway see his group other parties then move to the court and even yesterday when the government announced to. charity belonging to. the group announced that they will move the court they will go to the court they will knock at the door of the court so this is our thought but i've known for the pakistani government like recently it was the court in lahore really needs to have a say because i have to say who was in detention for months but when their detention period ended saw that the court needs them and the government could not interfere so here i would say did these pakistani leaders have a say that they should also think but because pakistan is now under pressure from outside pakistan is pakistan affecting a lot

it's way bigger country than pakistan the film industry of pakistan is booming and it's booming very quick very which is a very good thing and of course you've got a big audience in the u.k. i mean i myself of course was on our lovely wood serious advice and i buy him a few thousand on. the castle and then later i was fired by yourself i play the ghost. who was dubbed the lead but nonetheless i think people knew i was saying the i think you guys are familiar with my work and was an inspiration to. me drumgold you worked in a. neighbour's ghost and we shortened portlandia. when we getting good talent from you recently there have been like two when you want to. go broke on the very famous in pakistan they're struggling because they had an accent obviously when they speak in our language or do they have an accent like british accent so they did struggle or they worked hard on their accent or now they are the most popular stars pakistan they're doing movies they're doing t.v. series t.v. dramas everything so obviously in amongst that what you do for tail you've got a lot of things that y

targets in pakistan.ay the president tweeted the united states has foolishly given pakistan more than $33 billion in aid the last 15 years and that they have given us nothing but lies and deceit thinking of our leaders as fools. they give safe havens to the terrorists we hunt in afghanistan with little help. no more. pakistan officials tell us that prompted an emergency government meeting today, john. >> jon: what is the latest response from the pakistani government? >> pakistan says the president's tweet is incomprehensible and contradicted facts. pakistan maintain aggressively targeted terrorist organizations in its border. the government says the huge sacrifices made by pakistan including loss of tens of thousands of lives of pakistani civilians and security personnel and the pain of their families could not be trivialized so hartlessly by pushing all of it behind a monetary value and that too an imagined one. pakistan added that it cannot act in haste and it will remain committed to playing a construc

charles: if pakistan was there. >> absolutely 100% true. pakistan is the key to it. we've not figured out what we're doing in afghanistan and the war has been going on too long by ben's rationale, we would be with iran at this point if we wanted to have greater influence in the region. ben: kennedy that's not going to end the war it's like saying we should give up the war against germany. >> if we leave afghanistan? >> by the way suppose pakistan was our enemy. they are not. not saying they're great people. ben: they're not at all. neil: well, all i know is it started around 230-240 million it's up now to close to a billion, 900 million i'd still argue we got a lot further to go >> that's a drop in the bucket for warren buffet. >> when people are building schools and bridges in this country as opposed to other countries this is what they're talking about. ben: we could do both. no reason. >> we could do both we wouldn't be $20 trillion in debt. neil: i wish we had more time unfortunately we do not and i think you save time by talking over one another which i think is

flee their homes muslims headed for pakistan well hindus set up for. india. enormous convoys of people moving in opposite directions the greatest mass migration in history. ten million people were displaced many were attacked by robbers and militants along the way a million people lost their lives. no one took responsibility for the tragedy but hindu nationalists accused gandhi of allowing muslims to steal part of the hindu nation. we went to the delhi headquarters of the rightwing hindu muss about organization. there we spoke to its then president he maintained that his was the only group that sought to defend india's integrity. ok got it in the arse of all of us the only one major. richard. reid the great journo explanations that. re. do. you want. one india so the hindu nationalists claim that this was a vivisection of. something that congress had betrayed the people in agreeing to in fact it was very much a part of their own program to have a separate station where serve their interests subsequently to have a separate pakistan state which is always

and we make massive payments every year to pakistan they have to help pakistan says moving in on saeed's groups isn't bowing to u.s. pressure it's intended to fulfil its international obligations reuters reports that pakistan was worried it would face un sanctions for failing to crack down on terrorist groups later this month a un security council team will visit to check on its progress natasha going to aim does era well in pakistan supporters of science have been protesting against the move to target states chandra since come on hina has more from islamabad the pakistani government had moved to ban hafiz saeed jagjit the outfit which had been working at cross bar get on a national day dr and respect among the people in the country however to move will be seen by them as an attempt to die for their work in this country they're already waging protests get on starting in the city of karachi and not knowledge threatening blog the grand trunk road a major whitetail highway then get on the pakistani foreign minister on the other hand also lashing out at the united states by saying that progr

it's actually it's not any pakistan we're going to pakistan later as well it's not only pakistan we pay billions of dollars to for nothing but also many other countries as an example we pay the palestinians hundreds of millions of dollars a year and get no appreciation respect they don't even want to negotiate a long overdue peace treaty with israel we've taken jerusalem the toughest part of the negotiation off the table but israel for that we've had to pay more but with the palestinians no longer willing to talk peace why should we make any of these massive future payments to them a couple big tweet there from donald trump ok so we can start with a reaction to that from both sides in a moment she hunted b. who is israel's minister of regional cooperation first though one assuredly from the palestinian liberation organization. i would say that palestinian diets are not for sale and we will not succumb to the acme that imperatives and the climate for peace and unilaterally president campaigns this story done it has a very sabotaged out assets at that evening and just peace and getting fr

we hunt in afghanistan with little help no more he is again and again venting his frustrations on pakistan over america's failures in afghanistan as they are trapped in a dead end street tribes tweet has triggered mass protests in pakistan people took to the streets to burn the u.s. flag and chant anti-american slogans pakistani said that they themselves did not appreciate it donald trump's comments. it's actually hard to make out that it's a. noise about a son. the president of us we've heard something. quite contrary to what is actually happening but you start yes pakistanis are spent billions of. years sacrifice the lives of many soldiers on the water. the water it actually was . the water which actually picked up the world it wasn't just hours. after a lot at the end of your treatment like this it means that the aids they have given us is nothing can pass one huge human loss is the time has come for us to be united they can't do anything against us this is just when it's trumped this the straighted this is about afghanistan he directs his frustration at pakistan. i don't fit in as a ci

that prompted an angry response in pakistan. they quickly refuted the tweets, rebutting it, calling the language coming from the united states totally incomprehensible. again, this is not just what we heard from washington in the past. they have said pakistan needs to do more to rule out the taliban within the borders and used the suspension of aid for cooperation from pakistan in the past. the trump administration started the year with similar language directed at pakistan. when they announced the policy, they expected it to do more to rule out the terrorists. again, it was this tweet that was dropped out of nowhere that left people scrambling to see what it meant. it took days to get clarification from washington which has come in the weeks that followed. we understand what the president was talking about or translated to, the suspect in terms of security assistance to pakistan. that could affect $1 billion of annual spending. the message from washington is this is not a cut to aid, again, suspension. it will get more cooperat

pakistan has played a double game for years. they work with us at times, and they harbor the terrorists that attack our troops in afghanistan. that game is not acceptable. we expect more cooperation from pakistan in the fight against terrorism. the president is willing to go to great lengths to stop all funding from pakistan as they continue to harbor and support terrorism. that brings me to my final point. the pakistan aid issue is not connected to the vote we had with jerusalem. it is connected to pakistan's harboring of terrorists. as i said in december, we will not forget the jerusalem vote. we're having a reception for those who did not oppose the u.s. position. this is a sign of u.s. friendship. we hope to see more in 2018. the united states is asked to do a huge amount around the world. we expect to be treated respectfully in return. i wish you a good 2018. i will take a couple of questions. >> thank you. do you want to handle iran? >> we are going to see what we need to do to have an emergency session. we will have a mee

forty seven the partition between india and pakistan was made official. as the clock had approached midnight there and the first prime minister of independent india addressed the nation. to do really big good with gift giving. and now the time comes when we showed you the model which at the root of the midnight hour when we were deep into our window we don't like when we don't. but the very morning after independence celebrations hindus in pakistan and muslims in india began to flee their homes muslims headed for pakistan well hindus set off for india. enormous convoys of people moving in opposite directions the greatest mass migration in history. ten million people were displaced many were attacked by robbers and militants along the way a million people lost their lives. no one took responsibility for the tragedy but hindu nationalists accused gandhi of allowing muslims to steal parts of the hindu nation. we went to the delhi headquarters of the rightwing hindu must about organization. there we spoke to its then president he maintained that his was the o

well the foreign minister of pakistan has issued a fierce response to trump accusing pakistan of providing safe havens for terrorists there fighting in afghanistan in not one tweet but three take a listen for yourself you ask what we've done from our bases you carried out fifty seven thousand eight hundred attacks in afghanistan thousands of civilians and soldiers became victims of the war you initiated we stood by you treated your enemy as i wrote we feel guantanamo bay now history teaches us not to blindly trust the us with a story they would not be but we would not demean ourselves any more and the foreign minister hasn't exactly held back when it comes to this particular issue he even said in the past that the terrorists that pakistan is accused of harboring were once quote darlings of the us who are being wind in dined in the white house so trumps tweets rightfully struck a nerve and immediately following those tweets pakistani officials converged for an emergency security meeting to discuss the issue but pakistanis in general haven't taken trump's tweet so kindly and ironically enoug

>> pakistan has made that achievement. situation in afghanistan, unfortunately, has deteriorated. according to u.s. reports, 40 areas are not under control. that means you are talking about militants, and you are going back to the time when it all started, 2001, 2002. pakistan, i guess, provides an easy or convenient scapegoat for the failure in afghanistan. jane: how much cooperation is there between you and the u.s. right now? >> we would like to have more cooperation. we think the answer lies in further intelligence cooperation, military to military cooperation, even diplomatic to diplomatic. that is the only way fax will come to be known. the u.s. says there are safe havens for the taliban and haqqani. we say there are none. if you have technology, tell us where they are. we would be happy to eliminate them if there are any. both the taliban and haqqanis have been pushed to afghanistan, and we continue to do that. we are quite committed to it. we have a clear message to the taliban and haqqanis. that is the cooperation

and we make massive payments every year to pakistan they have to help pakistan says moving in on saeed's groups isn't bowing to u.s. pressure it's intended to fulfil its international obligations reuters reports that pakistan was worried it would face u.n. sanctions for failing to crack down on terrorist groups later this month a un security council team will visit to check on its progress natasha going to aim . well let's get off my correspondent muslim children who is in washington d.c. reza why his he's getting seeming a more aggressive towards pakistan. well it's really not clear why the u.s. president donald trump decided to use his first tweet of two thousand and eighteen to attack the pakistani government but suffice it to say this is something where the trumpet ministration essentially has conducted what might be considered a continuation of the obama administration policy which is a lot of tough love for islam abad there's a lot of suspicion that pakistan still isn't doing enough to cut down on groups such as the taliban. she was trying to root out these groups not only from the

pakistan summoned the u.s. ambassador over a tweet posted by donald trump on yours day in his first twitter salvo of twenty eight to the american president accuse the slum about of quote nothing but lies and deceit so your account of the story the u.s. focus on relations are at an all time low lately with protests raging on all across the country a pakistanis have taken to the streets burning american flags and chanting and slogans and this is all after trying to target focus on in his first tweet of twenty great way to start off the new year accusing them of providing safe havens for terrorists they're pursuing in afghanistan the united states has fruitlessly given pakistan more than thirty three billion dollars in aid over the last fifteen years and they have given i was nothing but lies and deceit thinking of our leaders as food they give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in afghanistan with little help no more but this is nothing new trump seems really hitting his earlier statements from back in august w

sanctions going to new i think pakistan should the united states might lose pakistan for a long time to go take president very good to hear your thoughts on this thank you very much for joining us there from islamabad twenty eighteen is said to be a critical year in british and european history the european union says it wants all banks in negotiations to be completed by october but there is much to be done on the phillips takes a look at the challenge ahead as part of our series events to look forward to in twenty. on a busy holiday. a town steep delish history and one which voted in favor of bricks hit by almost exactly the same percentage as the entire u.k. so a good place to find out what people now think about breaks it and whether to reason may can meet the challenges of twenty eighteen. where would i say she's rolling over for. interest. to me you. didn't expect to. come quick. i think the economy. i think it's embarrassing. i think it's. yeah. just like the people of canterbury the governing conservative party and the opposition labor party are badly divided over. in twenty e

terrorism retired lieutenant general in the pakistani army a lot of things are blaming pakistan will not help the situation in afghanistan and the donald trump should be aware that. he is just trying to sort of express his frustrations in fact he's trying to place blame on pakistan to sort of shift the blame on the exactly what the american policy has failed to do they think that by placing blame on pakistan they are going to solve the problem of understand they are sadly mistaken it is in the foremost interest of pakistan to have stability enough to understand because if there is one country which is most adversely affected by the poor conditions in afghanistan or instability in afghanistan is pakistan so how on earth do that think that pakistan would like to destabilize afghanistan and not contribute towards efforts that would really stabilize and make up understand the peaceful country. nato says a u.s. service member has been killed in combat in afghanistan more on that and much else after a short break watching our two international. join me every thursday on the alex salmond sh

it is connected to pakistan's harboring of terrorists. as i said in december, we will not forget the jerusalem vote. we're having a reception for those who did not oppose the u.s. position. this is a sign of u.s. friendship. in 2018.o see more the united states is asked to do a huge amount around the world. we expect to be treated respectfully in return. i wish you a good 2018. >> thank you. which human body do you want to handle iran? we are going to see what we need to do to have an emergency session. we will have a meeting on what is happening with the protests and their fight for freedom. >> thank you ambassador. unilateral action the united states plans to take against iran? do you plan to hold iran for the missiles fired? planere is no unilateral from the administration. we are absolutely going to move forward on missiles. us look ate resolution 2231 carefully and see what needs to be changed so we can put a stop to the testing of ballistic missiles. >> will the u.s. maintain its present level of funding of the u.n. relief works age