Islamabad: Pakistan's army chief told a top US general the nation "felt betrayed" at criticism that it was not doing enough to fight terrorism, the military said on Friday, after President Donald Trump accused Pakistan of "lies and deceit".

US Central Command chief Gen. Joseph Votel told Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa during a telephone call this week that the US was not contemplating any unilateral action inside Pakistan, the Pakistani army said in a statement.

Tension between the US and Pakistan has grown over US complaints that the Afghan Taliban and Haqqani network that target American troops in Afghanistan are allowed to take shelter on Pakistani soil.

Trump's administration last week announced the suspension of about $2 billion in security aid to nuclear-armed Pakistan over accusations Islamabad is playing a double game in Afghanistan.

Islamabad denies this and accuses the US of disrespecting its vast sacrifices - casualties have numbered in the tens of thousands - in fighting terrorism.

The US aid suspension was announced days after Trump tweeted on January 1 that the US had foolishly given Pakistan $33 billion in aid over 15 years. It is not clear what prompted Trump's tweet, which infuriated Pakistani officials and caught the rest of the US administration off guard. The Pakistani statement on Friday did not directly refer to Trump's tweet.

"(Bajwa) said that entire Pakistani nation felt betrayed over US recent statements despite decades of cooperation," the army said, referring to the phone call between Bajwa and Votel.Reuters