INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
America's South Asia strategy, the Pentagon said on Monday, a day after President Donald Trump said that Islamabad was not doing "a damn
thing" for the US.In an interview to a television news channel on Sunday, 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."The US and Pakistan have a strong mutual interests in the region
As you know, they are critical (and) vital to the South Asia strategy and including the facilitation of a peace process that would lead to a
stable and peaceful Afghanistan," Col Rob Manning, Director of Defense Press Operations, told reporters during an off-camera news
conference."They remain a critical partner in our South Asia strategy and there's been no change to our military-to-military relationship
with Pakistan," Manning said, responding to question about the series of tweets by President Trump and his interview to Fox News that
Pakistan has done nothing for the United States."I do not have any announcement on any change to the military to military relationship we
have with Pakistan," Manning said, when asked that his answers reflects that the Pentagon differs with the views of President Trump on
