{"id":15460,"date":"2017-08-24T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=15460"},"modified":"2017-08-24T15:24:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T10:24:19","slug":"russia-slams-trump-defends-pakistans-afghan-role-after-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=15460","title":{"rendered":"Russia slams Trump, defends Pakistan\u2019s Afghan role after China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MOSCOW Aug 24 (TNS):<\/strong> United States (US) President Donald Trump\u2019s statement about Pakistan has rallied China and Russia to oppose the new US strategy to end conflict in war-torn Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing and Moscow came forward to Pakistan\u2019s defense as Trump unveiled the new strategy for Afghanistan, Pakistan, and South Asia. Russia echoed a defensive sentiment on Tuesday for Pakistan after Trump\u2019s speech.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Russia\u2019s Afghanistan daily, Russian Presidential Envoy to Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov slammed Trump\u2019s criticism of Pakistan and emphasized that Islamabad is a key regional player to negotiate with.<\/p>\n<p>He opined that putting pressure on Pakistan may seriously destabilize the region-wide security situation, resulting in negative consequences for Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying defended Pakistan and lauded her country\u2019s all-weather friend for its efforts and great sacrifices in the fight against terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson also called upon the international community to fully recognize Islamabad\u2019s endeavors against terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW Aug 24 (TNS): United States (US) President Donald Trump\u2019s statement about Pakistan has rallied China and Russia to oppose the new US strategy to end conflict in war-torn Afghanistan. Beijing and Moscow came forward to Pakistan\u2019s defense as Trump unveiled the new strategy for Afghanistan, Pakistan, and South Asia. Russia echoed a defensive sentiment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,565],"tags":[830,733],"class_list":["post-15460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-moscow","tag-moscow","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15460","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=15460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15462,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15460\/revisions\/15462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}