{"id":15183,"date":"2017-08-23T12:02:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T07:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=15183"},"modified":"2017-08-23T12:02:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T07:02:58","slug":"pm-abbasi-off-to-saudi-arabia-on-maiden-foreign-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=15183","title":{"rendered":"PM Abbasi off to Saudi Arabia on maiden foreign visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD, Aug 23 (TNS):<\/strong> Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi left for Saudi Arabia Wednesday morning for a day-long visit.<\/p>\n<p>The premier is accompanied by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar and Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said the premier will hold a meeting with Saudi leadership and also pay a visit to the resting place of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) in Medina.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first foreign visit of Abbasi, who was elected prime minister on August 1 after the earlier premier, Nawaz Sharif, was disqualified from holding public office by the Supreme Court in its landmark July 28 judgment in the Panama Papers case.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said today&#8217;s visit to Saudi Arabia, a close ally of Pakistan, will feature discussions on US President Donald Trump&#8217;s new policy regarding Pakistan and bilateral relations. .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Aug 23 (TNS): Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi left for Saudi Arabia Wednesday morning for a day-long visit. The premier is accompanied by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar and Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif. Sources said the premier will hold a meeting with Saudi leadership and also pay a visit to the resting place of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-15183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-islamabad","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15183","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=15183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15185,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15183\/revisions\/15185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}