Pakistan Continues to Harbour Terrorists: Nikki Haley
The outgoing US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said in an interview that Pakistan continues to harbor terrorists and that US should not give even a dollar to that country.
The outgoing US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said in an interview that Pakistan continues to harbor terrorists and that US should not give even a dollar to that country.
Asserting that Washington should not give Islamabad even a dollar until it addresses the issue of terrorism, US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley has said Pakistan continues to harbour terrorists that turn around and kill American soldiers.
The United States did not need to give money to countries that wish harm to America, go behind its back and try and “stop us from doing things,” she said during an interview with Atlantic.
“…I think there should be a strategic view on which countries we partner with, which ones we count on to work with us on certain things and move forward accordingly. I think we just blindly allow money to keep going without thinking that this is real leverage. We have to use it,” Haley said.
“The one example I’ll give you is, look at Pakistan. Giving them over a billion dollars, and they continue to harbour terrorists that turn around and kill our soldiers —that’s never okay. We shouldn’t even give them a dollar until they correct it. Use the billion dollars. That’s not a small amount of change,” she said.
This comes as US president Donald Trump had criticised Pakistan of doing nothing in return for the US money.
“We give Pakistan USD 1.3 billion a year… (Laden] lived in Pakistan, we’re supporting Pakistan, we’re giving them USD 1.3 billion a year – which we don’t give them anymore, by the way, I ended it because they don’t do anything for us, they don’t do a damn thing for us,” he had said.
Meanwhile, Chief State Department spokeswoman and a former Fox News journalist Heather Nauert was last week appointed as Haley’s successor by President Donald Trump.
In October, Haley announced that she was leaving the post by the end of the year. The 46-year-old former South Carolina governor has served nearly two years in the post.
