{"id":41902,"date":"2018-01-04T15:31:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T10:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41902"},"modified":"2018-01-04T15:31:45","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T10:31:45","slug":"imran-khan-says-he-always-opposed-uss-war-on-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41902","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan says he always opposed US\u2019s war on terror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad, Jan. 4 (TNS):<\/strong> Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Thursday said that he has always opposed Pakistan fighting the \u2018war on terror\u2019 on behalf of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting someone else\u2019s war as a \u2018gun for hire\u2019 had bred violence and terror in the country, said Imran in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks were part of PTI chief\u2019s official statement regarding the ongoing foreign policy crisis sparked by a tweet from US President Donald Trump, in which the latter had urged Pakistan to \u2018do more\u2019 to eliminate terrorist safe havens on its soil.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41903\" src=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-7.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-7.png 525w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-7-300x256.png 300w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture-7-492x420.png 492w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Imran\u00a0said that Trump threatened Pakistan in order to hide US failures in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe accusation levelled against Pakistan is deliberate and we must learn never to be used by others for short-term paltry financial benefits ever again,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n<p>Imran was of the opinion that the country had viable options of creating a cooperative framework with China, Russia and Iran as partners to seek peace in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0added that the people of Pakistan expect their government and state to defend the nation\u2019s sovereignty and integrity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Jan. 4 (TNS): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Thursday said that he has always opposed Pakistan fighting the \u2018war on terror\u2019 on behalf of the United States. Fighting someone else\u2019s war as a \u2018gun for hire\u2019 had bred violence and terror in the country, said Imran in a statement. The remarks were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-41902","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\/41902","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=41902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41904,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41902\/revisions\/41904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}