{"id":35467,"date":"2017-12-07T16:58:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T11:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=35467"},"modified":"2017-12-07T16:58:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T11:58:09","slug":"pakistan-to-raise-trumps-jerusalem-declaration-at-all-forums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=35467","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan to raise Trump\u2019s Jerusalem declaration at all forums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD Dec 07 (TNS):<\/strong>\u00a0 President Mamnoon Hussain has said that Pakistan would take up at all available fora the decision of the US President to recognize occupied Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>He was addressing a ceremony held in Islamabad on Thursday to mark National Voters\u2019 Day.<\/p>\n<p>The President expressed the confidence that the OIC meeting to be convened to review the situation would adopt a tough position.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump on Wednesday recognized the disputed city of Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital, a historic decision that overturns decades of US policy and risks triggering a fresh spasm of violence in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5891\" src=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Trump-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"654\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Trump-1.jpg 654w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Trump-1-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have determined that it is time to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel,\u201d Trump said from the White House. \u201cIt\u2019s the right thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The declaration calls into question seven decades of deliberate diplomatic ambiguity about the final status of a holy city vociferously claimed by both Israelis and Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also kicked off the process of moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, making good on a campaign promise dear to evangelical Christian and right wing Jewish voters, as well as donors.<\/p>\n<p>He said his decision marked the start of a \u201cnew approach\u201d to solving the thorny conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s predecessors, from Bill Clinton to George Bush, made similar promises on the campaign trail, but quickly reneged upon taking office, and the burden of war and peace.<\/p>\n<p>This most unlikely of presidents, who came to office with no foreign policy experience and denouncing experts, was determined to show his arrival in Washington spells the end of business as usual.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD Dec 07 (TNS):\u00a0 President Mamnoon Hussain has said that Pakistan would take up at all available fora the decision of the US President to recognize occupied Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. He was addressing a ceremony held in Islamabad on Thursday to mark National Voters\u2019 Day. The President expressed the confidence that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-35467","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\/35467","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=35467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35468,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35467\/revisions\/35468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}