{"id":300918,"date":"2018-07-31T04:04:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T04:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300918"},"modified":"2018-07-31T04:04:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T04:04:20","slug":"pm-modi-congratulates-imran-khan-expresses-his-vision-of-peace-and-development-in-the-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-congratulates-imran-khan-expresses-his-vision-of-peace-and-development-in-the-region\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi congratulates Imran Khan, expresses his vision of peace and development in the region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-300919 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/narendra-modi-pm-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/narendra-modi-pm-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/narendra-modi-pm-528x420.jpg 528w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/narendra-modi-pm.jpg 655w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_560102779\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Monday<\/span><\/span>, congratulated Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Imran Khan, who is set to become Pakistan&#8217;s next prime minister<\/span>, <span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">as his party emerged as the strongest party in the recently held elections in Pakistan.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The prime minister expressed hope that democracy will take deeper roots in Pakistan. He also reiterated his vision of peace and development in the entire neighborhood, a statement released by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In his first press conference, PTI chief Imran Khan had said, \u201cIf they take one step towards us, we will take two, but at least need a start\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PTI Chief will take oath onAugust 11, three days before the country\u2019s independence day that falls on\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_560102780\"><span class=\"aQJ\">August 14<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, Imran Khan himself set at rest speculation about the date and he was quoted as saying on Radio Pakistan that\u00a0\u201cI will take oath as Prime Minister on 11th of next month that is\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_560102781\"><span class=\"aQJ\">August 11<\/span><\/span>\u201d. That shows that the party has done its homework and is confident of forming a majority government.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, congratulated Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Imran Khan, who is set to become Pakistan&#8217;s next prime minister, as his party emerged as the strongest party in the recently held elections in Pakistan. The prime minister expressed hope that democracy will take deeper roots in Pakistan. He also reiterated his vision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":300919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[3867,574,316,48,3866],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300918"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300920,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300918\/revisions\/300920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}