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Trump's all atwitter on Pakistan

US holding military aid to Pakistan has to do with the fact that its new Afghan strategy adding 4,000 more soldiers to the 11,000 US troops in Afghanistan risks failure in the face of Pakistan's non cooperation to move against Taliban sanctuaries on its territory.

US diplomats usually resort to metaphor to couch their disappointment with Pakistan's double standards in the war on terror. In 2011, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called out Islamabad's duplicity as "rearing snakes in your backyard, expecting they'll only bite your neighbours". Donald Trump, not known for diplomatese, began the New Year with possibly the

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