{"id":74452,"date":"2018-08-01T19:53:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T14:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=74452"},"modified":"2018-08-01T19:53:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T14:53:25","slug":"foreign-minister-lashes-out-at-us-over-imf-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=74452","title":{"rendered":"Foreign minister lashes out at US over IMF statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Islamabad, August 1 (TNS): Hitting back at US, Caretaker Foreign Minister Abdullah Hussain Haroon on Wednesday rejected a recent statement by United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo\u00a0in which the latter had warned the International Monetary Fund (IMF)\u00a0against providing Pakistan a bailout programme.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why I believe that this statement is completely inappropriate is because China holds $3 billion in American deposited bonds and reserves and I am a little bewildered as to why this [Pompeo&#8217;s statement] needed to be said,&#8221; Haroon said at a media briefing in the capital on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the Pakistani government is determined to complete China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects and that &#8220;there is absolutely no reason for anyone to intervene in the [China-Pakistan] relationship&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is the stated position of this government that it is totally wrong to link any IMF package with CPEC,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Third parties cannot weaken our collective resolve to make CPEC a success story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Islamabad, August 1 (TNS): Hitting back at US, Caretaker Foreign Minister Abdullah Hussain Haroon on Wednesday rejected a recent statement by United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo\u00a0in which the latter had warned the International Monetary Fund (IMF)\u00a0against providing Pakistan a bailout programme. &#8220;Why I believe that this statement is completely inappropriate is because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74452","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\/74452","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=74452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74454,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74452\/revisions\/74454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}