{"id":310765,"date":"2019-03-23T04:55:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T04:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310765"},"modified":"2019-03-23T05:16:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T05:16:13","slug":"received-greetings-from-pm-modi-tweets-imran-khan-on-eve-of-pakistan-national-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/received-greetings-from-pm-modi-tweets-imran-khan-on-eve-of-pakistan-national-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Received greetings from PM Modi, tweets Imran Khan on eve of Pakistan National Day"},"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-310766 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/imran-modi-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/imran-modi-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/imran-modi.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/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 Friday said that PM Narendra Modi sent him greetings and best wishes to the people of Pakistan on the eve of Pakistan&#8217;s National Day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Khan in a tweet said PM Modi told him that it is time for people of the subcontinent to work together &#8220;for a democratic, peaceful and prosperous region, in an atmosphere free of terror and violence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Imran Khan tweeted-Received msg from PM Modi: &#8220;I extend my greetings &amp; best wishes to the people of Pakistan on the National Day of Pakistan. It is time that ppl of Sub-continent work together for a democratic, peaceful, progressive &amp; prosperous region, in an atmosphere free of terror and violence&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Khan said he welcomed PM Modi\u2019s message for the people of Pakistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI welcome PM Modi&#8217;s message to our people. As we celebrate Pakistan Day, I believe it is time to begin a comprehensive dialogue with India to address &amp; resolve all issues, esp the central issue of Kashmir, &amp; forge a new relationship based on peace &amp; prosperity for all our people,\u201d Khan added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pakistan would celebrate the day today, however, the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi organised the event on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The government of India did not send any representative to the reception as Hurriyat leaders were also invited by Pakistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe are very clear, any attempt by Pakistan High Commission or Pakistani leadership to engage with Hurriyat leaders will not be taken lightly,&#8221; Foreign Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday said that PM Narendra Modi sent him greetings and best wishes to the people of Pakistan on the eve of Pakistan&#8217;s National Day. Khan in a tweet said PM Modi told him that it is time for people of the subcontinent to work together &#8220;for a democratic, peaceful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,53],"tags":[3867,316,11177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310765"}],"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=310765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310767,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310765\/revisions\/310767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}