{"id":13776,"date":"2017-08-15T00:05:52","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T19:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=13776"},"modified":"2017-08-15T00:05:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T19:05:52","slug":"us-secretary-of-state-telephones-khawaja-asif-to-greet-iday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=13776","title":{"rendered":"US secretary of State telephones Khawaja Asif to greet I\u2019Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad, August 14 (TNS):<\/strong> United States\u2019 Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Monday telephoned Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif to congratulate Pakistanis on their 70th Independence Day.<\/p>\n<p>According to a press release issued by the ministry, Tillerson conveyed the best wishes on behalf of the US Government and the American people to the government and people of Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The US secretary also congratulated the foreign minister on assuming office of foreign ministry and expressed his desire to work with him for achieving common objectives.<\/p>\n<p>Khawaja Asif thanked Secretary Tillerson saying that the call was an apt reminder of the long history of relations between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign minister added that the US had been a partner in Pakistan\u2019s journey of development, both in the socio-economic and defence sector.<\/p>\n<p>Asif said the current leadership of Pakistan was committed to strengthening relations with the US. He also underscored the need to build a dynamic and diverse relationship underpinned by mutual trust, sincerity, and confidence.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said that Pakistan would benefit the most if peace and stability were achieved in Afghanistan as the success and sustainability of Pakistan\u2019s economic reforms depend upon a peaceful and stable Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed the country\u2019s willingness to work with the US once the policy review on Afghanistan is unveiled. He emphasised that a political settlement to conflict in Afghanistan was common objective of Pakistan and the US.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary Tillerson later extended an invitation to the minister to visit the US to carry on the conversation. The minister reciprocally invited Secretary Tillerson to visit Pakistan, which the latter has accepted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, August 14 (TNS): United States\u2019 Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Monday telephoned Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif to congratulate Pakistanis on their 70th Independence Day. According to a press release issued by the ministry, Tillerson conveyed the best wishes on behalf of the US Government and the American people to the government and people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[589],"class_list":["post-13776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13778,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13776\/revisions\/13778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}