{"id":44167,"date":"2018-01-14T15:08:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T10:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44167"},"modified":"2018-01-14T15:08:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T10:08:23","slug":"as-pm-meeting-with-trump-would-be-like-bitter-pill-to-swallow-says-imran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44167","title":{"rendered":"As PM meeting with Trump would be like bitter pill to swallow: says Imran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad, Jan. 14 (TNS):<\/strong> Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan termed meeting US President Donald Trump as prime minister\u00a0of Pakistan would be a \u201cbitter pill\u201d to swallow if his party wins the general elections this year, according to US media report.<\/p>\n<p>The PTI chief, speaking foreign media at Bani Gala on Saturday,\u00a0said that he would still meet him [Trump], the\u00a0<em>Voice of America<\/em>\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will dread it, but I will have to swallow the bitter pill and meet him,\u201d said Imran, adding, \u201cWhether we would be able to communicate, I am not so sure, but of course we, countries, have to work with the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the Trump\u2019s accusations against Islamabad, including \u201clies and deceit\u201d and\u00a0harbouring militants battling American\u00a0troops in the war-torn country, Imran said: \u201cYou cannot insult a country of 200 million people by blaming, scapegoating them for the disaster in Afghanistan. It was very insulting of him [Trump], the way he treated Pakistan. \u2026 He has treated Pakistan like a doormat. I just don\u2019t think that that was very fair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A harsh critic of the US-led war, the cricketer-turned-politician reiterated his stance that while Pakistan should have supported US campaign against terrorism, deployment of its troops in the tribal areas near Pak-Afghan border should not have been done.<\/p>\n<p>He blamed the policy for terrorist attacks in the country that have killed tens of thousands of Pakistanis in the past decade and causing a dent in\u00a0the economy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Jan. 14 (TNS): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan termed meeting US President Donald Trump as prime minister\u00a0of Pakistan would be a \u201cbitter pill\u201d to swallow if his party wins the general elections this year, according to US media report. The PTI chief, speaking foreign media at Bani Gala on Saturday,\u00a0said that he would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-44167","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\/44167","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=44167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44168,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44167\/revisions\/44168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}