Hamza Ali Abbasi is butting into the Trump-Imran twitter argument!
Recently the American President, Donald Trump, expressed his views on Pakistan.
According to him, Pakistan used American aid money to fight terrorism but ended up NOT doing so.
He said that the Pakistani government did nothing to help the Americans fight terrorism. He went on to say that Pakistan has given the US nothing in return for their ‘help’ since then. The President had said all of this during a TV interview, which caused quite the uproar (and rightly so) in Pakistan.
Our Prime Minister, Imran Khan, didn’t let this statement by Trump go by so easily and hit back.
He called American aid minuscule AND put it in inverted commas! INVERTED COMMAS.
Record needs to be put straight on Mr Trump's tirade against Pakistan: 1. No Pakistani was involved in 9/11 but Pak decided to participate in US War on Terror. 2. Pakistan suffered 75,000 casualties in this war & over $123 bn was lost to economy. US "aid" was a miniscule $20 bn.
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) November 19, 2018
The human cost of the war is too high to ever justify, as people have given up so much.
Then people like Trump come in and give such statements that are disrespectful and RUDE.
3. Our tribal areas were devastated & millions of ppl uprooted from their homes. The war drastically impacted lives of ordinary Pakistanis. 4. Pak continues to provide free lines of ground & air communications(GLOCs/ALOCs).Can Mr Trump name another ally that gave such sacrifices?
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) November 19, 2018
YAAAS YAAAS YAAAAS
Instead of making Pakistan a scapegoat for their failures, the US should do a serious assessment of why, despite 140000 NATO troops plus 250,000 Afghan troops & reportedly $1 trillion spent on war in Afghanistan, the Taliban today are stronger than before.
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) November 19, 2018
Go PM, that’s our PM.
Trump, in his usual way of dealing with things, decided to respond on Twitter, because apparently, this is what diplomacy looks like in 2018.
Of course we should have captured Osama Bin Laden long before we did. I pointed him out in my book just BEFORE the attack on the World Trade Center. President Clinton famously missed his shot. We paid Pakistan Billions of Dollars & they never told us he was living there. Fools!..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 19, 2018
Okay BYEEEEEEEE
….We no longer pay Pakistan the $Billions because they would take our money and do nothing for us, Bin Laden being a prime example, Afghanistan being another. They were just one of many countries that take from the United States without giving anything in return. That’s ENDING!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 19, 2018
This isn’t the first time the American administration has looked at Pakistan with doubt about our ‘intentions’, and usually the response for the Pakistani side has been weak. For the first time, we have responded to the US in a proper manner, not letting them walk all over us as our efforts and our sacrifices went into a war we were forced to fight.
Now, while we all might be celebrating that we as a nation have finally after many years given the US a proper response, there is one man who couldn’t be happier.
That man is Hamza Ali Abbasi, the ultimate PTI fanboy!
Imran Khan kuch bhi karle, he’ll be over the moon. Understandably, when the Prime Minister gave his retort, he decided to join in the twitter banter
A response from my Prime Minister to @realDonaldTrump & those ignorant ones who blame Pakistan for the failure of USA in Afghanistan…. pic.twitter.com/q2WY4KZ7qX
— Hamza Ali Abbasi (@iamhamzaabbasi) November 19, 2018
Actually, he full on butted himself into the conversation
#Trump…Stop blaming Pakistan for US failures! U, claiming to be a super power, fought a war in Afghanistan for more than a decade with the most lethal advanced weapons in the world. Thousands of Afghanis lost their lives, you spent almost a Trillion dollars..and..YOU LOST!
— Hamza Ali Abbasi (@iamhamzaabbasi) November 19, 2018
Again, what both Imran Khan and Hamza Ali Abbasi are saying isn’t wrong. The cost that Pakistan has had to incur due to the war is immense. Pakistan has given up its resources and time to fight the war on terror, with great costs to itself.
Yes, the fight shouldn’t have really been going on social media, but the statement on the side of the American President was far from perfect. We know the costs and the sacrifices we have given as a nation for this war. It’s absolutely ridiculous that we have to keep justifying our actions and keep counting our dead, just to prove to the world that we’re on their side, fighting the good fight (most of the time, fighting it on their behalf)
Pakistanis Are Brutally Trolling Modi After Imran Khan’s “Small Man” Burn
This Pakistani Beauty Brand Owner Is Calling Out Imran Khan For Not Supporting Small Businesses
Cover photo source: The Atlantic/Dawn/The Daily Times