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    Pakistan finds itself on the defensive in Trump's Afghan war strategy

    by By Aoun Sahi and Shashank Bengali, Los Angeles Times Aug 22, 2017 5 minutes

    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan _ It feels like a lifetime ago, but it was just December, a week after his election, that then-President-elect Donald Trump was lavishing praise on Pakistan, calling it a "fantastic place ... doing amazing work."

    But as Trump said in outlining his new strategy in South Asia, things look different from behind a desk in the Oval Office, and his views toward Pakistan seem to have changed since that strange phone call with former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

    Sharif is gone, having resigned last month in the wake of a corruption scandal, leaving Pakistan's military as unquestionably the most powerful force in the country. But that military _ one of the United States' most troublesome allies and the recipient of billions of dollars in U.S. aid _ now finds itself on the defensive as Trump demands it "change immediately" its policy of harboring the Taliban and other militant

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