{"id":76110,"date":"2018-08-20T13:41:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T08:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=76110"},"modified":"2022-12-13T13:57:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T08:57:31","slug":"foreign-policy-will-be-based-on-pakistan-first-qureshi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=76110","title":{"rendered":"Foreign policy will be based on \u201cPakistan-first\u201d: Qureshi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 12.0pt 0in;\">\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 12.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: black;\">Islamabad, Aug. 20 (TNS): Foreign minister Mahmood Qureshi, in his maiden press conference claimed that Pakistan&#8217;s new foreign policy would be based on \u201cPakistan-first.<br \/>buy grifulvin online <a href=\"https:\/\/meadowcrestdental.com\/wp-content\/themes\/twentyseventeen\/inc\/php\/grifulvin.html\">https:\/\/meadowcrestdental.com\/wp-content\/themes\/twentyseventeen\/inc\/php\/grifulvin.html<\/a> no prescription<br \/>\n<br \/>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 12.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: black;\">&#8220;Our foreign policy will begin and end at Pakistan&#8221;, Qureshi said while speaking at the Foreign Office (FO) in Islamabad hours after being sworn in as part of Prime Minister Imran Khan&#8217;s\u00a021-member cabinet\u00a0on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 12.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: black;\">&#8220;Pakistan\u2019s interest is at our very centre of foreign policy. 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This gives your opponents open playing fields,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 12.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: black;\">Responding to a question about the alleged interference of the establishment in the July 25 General Election and his political party&#8217;s freedom to exercise its own policy, Qureshi said: &#8220;There are pre-conceived notions about where the foreign policy of Pakistan was formulated. Let me be clear: the foreign policy will be made here \u2500 at the Foreign Office of Pakistan.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 12.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: black;\">&#8220;I will engage with all the institutions for the betterment of the country,&#8221; he said, adding: &#8220;It is the policy across the world. 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