{"id":301495,"date":"2018-08-18T06:53:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T06:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301495"},"modified":"2018-08-18T07:19:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T07:19:04","slug":"imran-khan-takes-oath-as-22nd-prime-minister-of-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/imran-khan-takes-oath-as-22nd-prime-minister-of-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan takes oath as 22nd Prime Minister of 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-301496 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/imran-khan-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/imran-khan-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/imran-khan-768x615.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/imran-khan-696x557.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/imran-khan-525x420.jpg 525w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/imran-khan.jpg 942w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/>Cricketer turned politician and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman\u00a0Imran Khan on Saturday took\u00a0oath as 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan after his party won the highest number of seats in the general election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The\u00a0swearing-in ceremony was administered by Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PTI chief Khan was accompanied by his wife Bushra Bibi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The ceremony was attended by former Indian cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu, legendary paceman Wasim Akram, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Zubair Mahmood Hayat, actor Javed Sheikh, singers Salman Ahmed and Abrarul Haq, Punjab Assembly speaker Pervez Elahi, Rameez Raja, caretaker minister Nasir-ul-Mulk, Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa, Chief of Air Staff Marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan and PTI leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Khan\u2019s party PTI bagged 176 seats while the opponent Sharif\u2019s PML-N received 96 seats.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cricketer turned politician and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman\u00a0Imran Khan on Saturday took\u00a0oath as 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan after his party won the highest number of seats in the general election. The\u00a0swearing-in ceremony was administered by Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain. PTI chief Khan was accompanied by his wife Bushra Bibi. The ceremony was attended by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[4201,3867,1516,48,3866,3868],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301495"}],"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=301495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301497,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301495\/revisions\/301497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}