{"id":309767,"date":"2019-02-25T04:40:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T04:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309767"},"modified":"2019-02-25T04:40:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T04:40:40","slug":"give-peace-a-chance-imran-khan-to-narendra-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/give-peace-a-chance-imran-khan-to-narendra-modi\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Give peace a chance\u2019, Imran Khan to Narendra Modi"},"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-306257 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/imran-1-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/imran-1-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/imran-1.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to \u201cgive peace a chance\u201d and assured him that he \u201cstands by\u201d his words and would \u201cimmediately act\u201d if New Delhi provided Islamabad with \u201cactionable intelligence\u201d on the Pulwama terror attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The appeal came just a day after PM Modi threw a challenge to Khan, asking him to act honourably by bringing to justice those behind the strike.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In response to Modi&#8217;s comments. A statement released by the Pakistan Prime Minister\u2019s Office said, \u201cPM Imran Khan stand by his words that if India gives us actionable intelligence, we will immediately act.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIn my meeting with PM Modi in December 2015, we had agreed that since poverty alleviation is a priority for our region, we would not allow any terrorist incident to derail peace efforts, however long before Pulwama, these efforts were derailed in September 2018. Sadly, now peace remains elusive due to elections in India. PM Modi should give peace a chance,\u201d the statement added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Khan had assured India on February 19 that he would act against the committers of the Pulwama terror attack if it shared \u201cactionable intelligence\u201d with Islamabad but warned New Delhi against launching any \u201crevenge\u201d retaliatory action.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India said Imran Khan\u2019s offer to investigate the attack if provided proof is a \u201clame excuse\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIt is a well-known fact that Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and its leader Masood Azhar are based in Pakistan and these should be enough proof for Pakistan to take action,\u201d the Ministry of External Affairs said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to \u201cgive peace a chance\u201d and assured him that he \u201cstands by\u201d his words and would \u201cimmediately act\u201d if New Delhi provided Islamabad with \u201cactionable intelligence\u201d on the Pulwama terror attack. The appeal came just a day after PM Modi threw a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":306257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[3867,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309767"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309768,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309767\/revisions\/309768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}