{"id":73859,"date":"2018-07-27T17:21:05","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T12:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=73859"},"modified":"2018-07-27T17:21:05","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T12:21:05","slug":"us-ready-to-work-with-pakistans-new-leadership-state-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=73859","title":{"rendered":"US ready to work with Pakistan&#8217;s new leadership: State Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Washington, July 27 (TNS): As Pakistan is set to form a new government, the US looks for opportunities to work with it to advance the goals of security and stability in South Asia, the State Department has said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As Pakistan&#8217;s elected leaders form a new government, the US will look for opportunities to work with them to advance our goals of security, stability, and prosperity in South Asia,&#8221; a US State Department spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan is set to become the next Prime Minister of the country, promising a new Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Washington will be working closely with Islamabad, given the two countries&#8217; relationship in the light of the US strategy for South Asia and the issue of Afghan peace talks, the US spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>The official further said the US was &#8220;concerned by reports of constraints placed on freedoms of expression, association, and the press leading up to the elections&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>As ecstatic PTI supporters celebrated, the outgoing Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), which had been in power since 2013, rejected the results alleging &#8220;outright rigging&#8221; and vowing it would use &#8220;all political and legal options for redressal of these glaring excesses&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Washington, July 27 (TNS): As Pakistan is set to form a new government, the US looks for opportunities to work with it to advance the goals of security and stability in South Asia, the State Department has said. &#8220;As Pakistan&#8217;s elected leaders form a new government, the US will look for opportunities to work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73859","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=73859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73860,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73859\/revisions\/73860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}