{"id":31359,"date":"2017-11-16T21:15:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T16:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=31359"},"modified":"2017-11-16T23:20:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T18:20:42","slug":"pakistan-reaffirms-commitment-to-un-principles-dastagir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=31359","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan reaffirms commitment to UN principles: Dastagir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Vancouver, Nov. 16 (TNS):<\/strong> Defence Minister Khurram Dastgir has reaffirmed Pakistan&#8217;s commitment to UN principles and its peacekeeping missions, state media reported.<\/p>\n<p>He was speaking at the UN Peacekeeping Defence Ministerial Meeting in C<\/p>\n<p>anadian city of Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>The Defence Minister said Pakistan has pledged troops and equipment generously for peacekeeping.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, said that rapid deployment of peacekeeping troops to ward off genocide and mass suffering remains the greatest challenges faced by the UN.<\/p>\n<p>Khurram Dastgir said the onus is on the world body to provide clear milestones and timelines for internal reforms that support rapid deployment.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31386\" src=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-11-16-at-11.14.11-PMg.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-11-16-at-11.14.11-PMg.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-11-16-at-11.14.11-PMg-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-11-16-at-11.14.11-PMg-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-11-16-at-11.14.11-PMg-80x60.jpeg 80w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-11-16-at-11.14.11-PMg-265x198.jpeg 265w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-11-16-at-11.14.11-PMg-696x522.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-11-16-at-11.14.11-PMg-560x420.jpeg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver, Nov. 16 (TNS): Defence Minister Khurram Dastgir has reaffirmed Pakistan&#8217;s commitment to UN principles and its peacekeeping missions, state media reported. He was speaking at the UN Peacekeeping Defence Ministerial Meeting in C anadian city of Vancouver. The Defence Minister said Pakistan has pledged troops and equipment generously for peacekeeping. He, however, said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[589],"class_list":["post-31359","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\/31359","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=31359"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31389,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31359\/revisions\/31389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}