{"id":35689,"date":"2017-12-08T14:29:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T09:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=35689"},"modified":"2017-12-08T14:29:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T09:29:49","slug":"british-high-commission-hosts-reception-for-mayor-of-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=35689","title":{"rendered":"British High Commission hosts reception for Mayor of London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD Dec 08 (TNS):<\/strong> <strong>\u00a0<\/strong>British High Commissioner Thomas Drew CMG hosted the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, at a reception at his residence in Islamabad on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Introducing the Mayor, Thomas Drew said: \u00a0\u201cI would like to extend a big welcome to the Mayor of London and his delegation.\u00a0 He is the Mayor of my own home town and, as I look around, Mayor of a town which feels like a second home to some of you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Mayor embodies in many ways all the points that you will regularly here from me about the links between our two countries. More than 2% of Britain\u2019s population trace their roots back to Pakistan. That means over 200,000 in London alone.\u00a0 And that goes to a bigger point about the nature of our society and our capital in particular. I learned recently that over 300 languages are spoken in London \u2013 more than in any other city in the world. It enriches our country \u2013 and is something we are very proud of.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy final point is about our desire to build on this.\u00a0 The Mayor\u2019s visit comes as a particularly good finale to our celebrations of the 70th anniversary of Pakistan\u2019s birth \u2013 and of 70 years of friendship between our two countries.\u00a0 Only last week the Mayor wrapped up the London end with the unveiling, alongside Pakistan\u2019s excellent High Commissioner to the UK, of a new bust of Quaid-e-Azam in the British Museum.\u00a0 The photography exhibition you see around you has toured 14 cities in the UK and Pakistan.\u00a0 The title says it all \u2013 \u201cshared history, shared future\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe now look forward to the next 70 years.\u00a0 That the British Government has chosen this country to run its biggest development programme in the world or to have its second biggest diplomatic mission says a lot about its commitment to that future.\u00a0 Both countries stand to benefit from the relationship.\u00a0 On the UK side, we are determined to help unleash Pakistan\u2019s considerable potential \u2013 the potential of the world\u2019s 5th most populous country. And, as I am sure the Mayor will, say, London will be at the heart of that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD Dec 08 (TNS): \u00a0British High Commissioner Thomas Drew CMG hosted the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, at a reception at his residence in Islamabad on Thursday. Introducing the Mayor, Thomas Drew said: \u00a0\u201cI would like to extend a big welcome to the Mayor of London and his delegation.\u00a0 He is the Mayor of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-35689","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\/35689","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=35689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35691,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35689\/revisions\/35691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}