'Trump can hire US-based audit firm to verify $33 bn aid figure'

January 02, 2018 20:59

Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif on Tuesday challenged US President Donald Trump's claim that the US has given Pakistan "more than $33 billion in aid over the last 15 years", saying verification by an audit firm would prove the US president wrong.

Even as the Pakistani government is yet to issue an official response to Trump's accusatory tweet that sparked a war of words between the two countries, the foreign minister offered that Trump could hire a US-based audit firm "on our expense" to verify the $33 billion aid figure and "let the world know who is lying & deceiving".

Asif's tweet came after Pakistan's Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi chaired a meeting of the National Security Council to discuss Trump's recent accusations against Pakistan.

In his first tweet of the new year, Trump had accused Pakistan of basing its relationship with the US on nothing but lies and deceit.

"The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years," he had said.

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