{"id":300806,"date":"2018-07-26T08:25:13","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T08:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300806"},"modified":"2018-07-26T08:25:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T08:25:13","slug":"indo-pak-ties-not-to-witness-turbulent-times-with-imran-khans-victory-shashi-tharoor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/indo-pak-ties-not-to-witness-turbulent-times-with-imran-khans-victory-shashi-tharoor\/","title":{"rendered":"Indo-Pak ties not to witness turbulent times with Imran Khan&#8217;s victory: Shashi Tharoor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-300019 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/S-tharoor-300x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/S-tharoor-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/S-tharoor-479x420.jpg 479w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/S-tharoor.jpg 625w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>While final results of Pakistan elections 2018 are expected in the coming hours, speaking on the expected win of Imran Khan, leader Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Congress leader and former Foreign Minister Shashi Tharoor said that the Indo-Pak relations would not witness turbulent times with Khan&#8217;s victory.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Tharoor said that &#8220;We have seen two faces of Imran, one as a hardliner for the electorate and other as liberal which we saw in London and New Delhi. So, it cannot necessarily be turbulent weather for Indo-Pak relations.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;I think it was completely predictable. For the last year also we have been hearing that the military wants a change, they want to get rid of Nawaz Sharif and his party and that they see Imran Khan as the most pliable potential,&#8221; he further added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Tharoor stated &#8220;Imran is the largest single party but without majority by himself. He&#8217;ll depend on independents &amp; small parties&#8217; support, almost certainly Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) &#8211; which will follow military instructions which means if he does things military considers out of line, support can be pulled.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Tharoor said that the Pakistan Army would want to ensure that the Prime Minister &#8220;doesn&#8217;t get out of hands or doesn&#8217;t get too independent&#8221;.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While final results of Pakistan elections 2018 are expected in the coming hours, speaking on the expected win of Imran Khan, leader Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Congress leader and former Foreign Minister Shashi Tharoor said that the Indo-Pak relations would not witness turbulent times with Khan&#8217;s victory. Tharoor said that &#8220;We have seen two faces of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":300019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[3867,3865,3866,2053],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300807,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300806\/revisions\/300807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}