{"id":48865,"date":"2018-01-20T13:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T21:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/?p=48865"},"modified":"2018-01-20T13:00:18","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T21:00:18","slug":"unsc-must-step-up-pressure-on-pak-to-change-its-behavior-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/unsc-must-step-up-pressure-on-pak-to-change-its-behavior-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"UNSC Must Step Up Pressure on Pak to Change its Behavior: U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks during a brief press availability at United Nations headquarters, Jan. 2, in New York City. (Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The UN Security Council should step up pressure on Pakistan to \u201cchange its behavior,\u201d U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said, Jan. 17.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Briefing reporters after returning from a UN Security Council visit to Afghanistan, she said the Afghanistan government has asked the 15-member powerful wing of the world body to step up pressure on Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey did ask us for consensus to put further pressure on Pakistan to come to the table and change their behavior,\u201d Haley said.<\/p>\n<p>She said the Afghan government \u201ccontinue to make 10 steps forward, and with Pakistan they feel like they continue to take steps backward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Kabul visit of UN Security Council members came ahead of the Kabul Process meeting next month where the Afghan government is expected to present its strategy for reaching a settlement with the armed opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Haley said the Afghan government is starting to see the Taliban concede, they are starting to see them move towards coming to the table.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan is accused of supporting the Taliban and various militant groups in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the U.S. froze nearly $2 billion in security assistance to Pakistan arguing that Islamabad is not taking any decisive action against terrorists operating from its soil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks during a brief press availability at United Nations headquarters, Jan. 2, in New York City. (Drew Angerer\/Getty Images) The UN Security Council should step up pressure on Pakistan to \u201cchange its behavior,\u201d U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said, Jan. 17. Briefing reporters after returning&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/unsc-must-step-up-pressure-on-pak-to-change-its-behavior-u-s\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":48850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,72],"tags":[1749,4763,82,2382,2601,107,147,53,2287,4762,3346],"class_list":["post-48865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-politics-current-affairs","tag-un","tag-afghanistan","tag-community","tag-donald-trump","tag-nikki-haley","tag-pakistan","tag-siliconeer","tag-south-asian","tag-united-nations","tag-united-nations-security-council","tag-unsc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}