{"id":301002,"date":"2018-08-02T09:04:26","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T09:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301002"},"modified":"2019-06-19T06:24:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T06:24:06","slug":"aamir-khan-refuses-to-attend-the-swearing-in-ceremony-of-imran-khan-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/aamir-khan-refuses-to-attend-the-swearing-in-ceremony-of-imran-khan-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Aamir Khan refuses to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Imran Khan in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301003 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/aamir-300x276.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/aamir-300x276.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/aamir-456x420.jpg 456w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/aamir.jpg 558w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/>Actor Aamir Khan on Thursday said that he won&#8217;t be attending the swearing-in ceremony of cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan in Pakistan, &#8220;Aamir said he had not received any invitation and won\u2019t be going for the ceremony in Islamabad.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Speaking to media, \u201cAamir Khan said he has a busy schedule and won&#8217;t be able to visit Pakistan for\u00a0Imran Khan&#8217;s oath-taking event\u00a0on August 11.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Though Aamir Khan has exempted himself from attending the event, Punjab cabinet minister and former cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu on Wednesday accepted the invite of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to attend Prime Minister-elect Imran Khan\u2019s swearing-in ceremony on August 11.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sidhu is the first among the notables who have confirmed his acceptance to the invite. He said, \u201cIt is a great honor for him and will show his attendance at the event\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PTI leader Imran Khan is set to become Pakistan\u2019s next prime minister after his party emerged as the strongest in the recently held elections in Pakistan.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Aamir Khan on Thursday said that he won&#8217;t be attending the swearing-in ceremony of cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan in Pakistan, &#8220;Aamir said he had not received any invitation and won\u2019t be going for the ceremony in Islamabad.&#8221; Speaking to media, \u201cAamir Khan said he has a busy schedule and won&#8217;t be able to visit Pakistan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":301003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[3932,3867,48,3933],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301002"}],"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\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301004,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301002\/revisions\/301004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}