November 20, 2018:

On Tuesday, Pakistan summoned the U.S. diplomat in Islamabad to protest against remarks made by President Donald Trump who has criticised Pakistan's role in fighting terrorism fight and the killing of Osama bin Laden.

Trump's comments over the last few days have angered Pakistan, including PM Imran Khan, who on Monday hit back at Trump by saying on Twitter that few allies have sacrificed or helped the US as much as Pakistan in its war on terror.

The friction threatens to further worsen already fragile relations between Islamabad & Washington, on-off allies who have repeatedly clashed about the war in Afghanistan & Pakistan's alleged support for Islamist militants.

Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said in a statement, "The Foreign Secretary called in the U.S. CdA Ambassador Paul Jones to register a strong protest on the unwarranted & unsubstantiated allegations made against Pakistan."

Over the weekend, Trump said in an interview Pakistan doesn't "do a damn thing" for the US despite billions of dollars in U.S. aid, and alleged Pakistani officials knew former al Qaeda leader bin Laden's location before his killing by U.S. troops in a raid inside Pakistan in 2011.

On Monday, Trump tweeted again and doubled down on those claims.

The Ministry said,"Rejecting the insinuations about OBL, Foreign Secretary reminded the US CdA that it was Pakistan’s intelligence cooperation that provided the initial evidence to trace the whereabouts of OBL,"

It added that "baseless rhetoric about Pakistan was totally unacceptable".

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