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Pakistan has no grounds to complain about Trump’s rebuke

By Tom Rogan
Published November 20, 2018 9:58pm ET
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Pakistan has no grounds to complain about Trump’s rebuke
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan during London Tech Week in London, Monday, June 11 2018. London Mayor Sadiq Khan says he hopes U.S. President Donald Trump will reconsider the protectionist measures that divided the G-7 summit in Canada last weekend. | (Robert Stevens/AP)

President Trump was right to rebuke Pakistan, and he ought to have gone even further in doing so.

Naturally, Pakistan’s populist government doesn’t see it that way. It was enraged by this Trump tweet on Monday:

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