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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s defence minister responded angrily Monday to an early-morning tweet by President Donald Trump that accused America’s once-close ally of “lies & deceit,” countering that the United States had given Pakistan “invective and mistrust” in return.

In his first tweet of the new year, Trump had said that the United States had “foolishly” given Pakistan $33 billion USD in aid over the last 15 years, “and they have given us nothing but lies & deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools.”

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Trump wrote further: “They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan, with little help. No more!”

Defense Minister Khurram Dastgir-Khan hit back on Twitter, writing that Pakistan, as an “anti-terror ally” of the United States, had given Washington land and air communication, military bases and intelligence cooperation that “decimated Al-Qaeda over the last 16yrs” while America “has given us nothing but invective and mistrust.”