US paid Pak billions, they never said Osama was living there: Trump

TIL Desk/World/Washington/ Continuing his tirade against Pakistan, US President Donald Trump has said the US has paid Islamabad billions of dollars but it never told the Americans that the Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was living in that country.

Trump had defended his administration’s decision to stop hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to Pakistan for not doing enough to curb terrorism and criticised Islamabad for offering a hideout to Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in the garrison city of Abbottabad.

“We paid Pakistan billions of dollars and they never told us he was living there. Fools!..,” Trump said in a tweet, a day after he told in an interview that Laden should have been captured long before.

“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,” Trump said. “They were just one of many countries that take from the United States without giving anything in return. That’s ENDING!” he said.