{"id":42193,"date":"2018-01-05T20:37:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T15:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42193"},"modified":"2018-01-05T20:37:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T15:37:16","slug":"imran-khan-acting-upon-directions-of-puppeteers-says-info-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42193","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan acting upon directions of &#8220;puppeteers\u201d: says Info minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad, Jan. 5 (TNS):<\/strong> Hitting back at PTI chief, State Minister for Information Marriyum Aurangzeb said on Friday that Imran Khan\u2019s press conference was upon the directions of an unknown &#8220;puppeteer&#8217;s&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The state minister said that the media talk revealed who was pulling the strings of the PTI chief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImran is mentally challenged and acting upon unknown person\u2019s directions,\u201d said Marriyum.<\/p>\n<p>She claimed that Imran is similar to a puppet and a hurdle in Pakistan\u2019s progress, fulfilling directives &#8216;from overseas&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The state minister said that when former president Pervez Musharraf \u2018was selling Pakistanis for US dollars, Imran was standing beside him\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImran needs to explain why he supported Musharraf\u2019s post-9\/11 policy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, Imran Khan criticised the incumbent government after the United States cut military aid to the country and questioned why was the prime minister not active in handling the situation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Jan. 5 (TNS): Hitting back at PTI chief, State Minister for Information Marriyum Aurangzeb said on Friday that Imran Khan\u2019s press conference was upon the directions of an unknown &#8220;puppeteer&#8217;s&#8221;. The state minister said that the media talk revealed who was pulling the strings of the PTI chief. \u201cImran is mentally challenged and acting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-42193","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\/42193","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=42193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42195,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42193\/revisions\/42195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}