{"id":303009,"date":"2018-09-20T08:46:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T08:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303009"},"modified":"2018-09-20T08:46:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T08:46:05","slug":"pakistan-pm-imran-khan-writes-to-indian-counterpart-seeks-resumption-of-dialogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pakistan-pm-imran-khan-writes-to-indian-counterpart-seeks-resumption-of-dialogue\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan PM Imran Khan writes to Indian counterpart, seeks resumption of dialogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300941 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/imran-modi-300x121.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"716\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/imran-modi-300x121.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/imran-modi-768x310.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/imran-modi-696x281.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/imran-modi.jpg 798w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pakistan&#8217;s newly-elected Prime Minister Imran Khan has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking to resume the stalled dialogue between the two neighbors. He is seeking resumption of dialogue at the UN General Assembly meet later this month in New York.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to reports PM Khan in his letter asked his Indian counterpart to green light meeting between External Affairs Minister (EAM) Sushma Swaraj and her Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Khan&#8217;s letter is the first formal proposal of bilateral dialogue since he formed the government in Pakistan. The letter came in response to Prime Minister Modi\u2019s own letter on August 20 which conveyed that New Delhi was looking for constructive and meaningful engagement between two countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Quoting from the letter official sources said, the PM had noted that India was committed to peaceful neighborly ties with Pakistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Indian and Pakistan have not had any substantial dialogue since 2015 when EAM Swaraj had travelled to Islamabad for Heart of Asia conference.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan&#8217;s newly-elected Prime Minister Imran Khan has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking to resume the stalled dialogue between the two neighbors. He is seeking resumption of dialogue at the UN General Assembly meet later this month in New York. According to reports PM Khan in his letter asked his Indian counterpart to green [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":300941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[3867,574,316,48,892],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303009"}],"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=303009"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303012,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303009\/revisions\/303012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}