Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Thursday hinted at seeking help from India and other nations to address the “problem” of “semi-unstable” nuclear-armed Pakistan.
Trump’s remark came during a town-hall in Indianapolis in response to a question on how he would deal with countries like Pakistan which has sometimes “double dealt” with the US.
“We’ve given them (Pakistan) money and they’ve double dealt us,” the interviewer said. “Yes, but the problem with Pakistan, where they have nuclear weapons – which is a real problem,” Trump said.
Trump went on to say,
The single biggest problem we have is nuclear weapons, you know, countries with them. And it’s not only a country, you have nine countries right now with nuclear weapons. But Pakistan is semi-unstable. We don’t want to see total instability. It’s not that much, relatively speaking. We have a little bit of a good relationship. I think I’d try and keep it. It is very much against my grain to say that, but a country – and that’s always the country, I think, you know, we give them money and we help them out, but if we don’t, I think that would go on the other side of the ledger and that could really be a disaster. At the same time, if you look at India and some of the others, maybe they’ll be helping us out because we’re going to look at it. We have many, many countries that we give a lot of money to and we get absolutely nothing in return and that’s going to stop fast.
Trump’s remarks came on a day when lawmakers questioned the rationale of the Obama administration to give billions of dollars in aid to Pakistan without getting desired results.
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