{"id":76373,"date":"2018-08-26T17:39:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T12:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=76373"},"modified":"2018-08-26T17:39:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T12:39:44","slug":"qureshi-expresses-condolences-over-demise-of-john-mccain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=76373","title":{"rendered":"Qureshi expresses condolences over demise of John McCain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 18.75pt; background: white; margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in;\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.75pt; 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: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'gn-tittle','serif'; color: #585656; letter-spacing: .25pt;\">ISLAMABAD, Aug. 26 (TNS): Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has expressed his condolences on the passing of US senator John McCain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.75pt; 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: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'gn-tittle','serif'; color: #585656; letter-spacing: .25pt;\">\u201cThoughts and prayers of the people of Pakistan are with the family and friends of Senator McCain,\u201d the statement from Foreign Office read.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.75pt; 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: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'gn-tittle','serif'; color: #585656; letter-spacing: .25pt;\">\u201cSenator John McCain had an illustrious military and public service career and was admired across the spectrum of US politics as a man of integrity and a champion of civility,\u201d the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.75pt; 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: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'gn-tittle','serif'; color: #585656; letter-spacing: .25pt;\">The statement further added, \u201cAs Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, Senator McCain always stood for strong Pakistan-US relations and a cooperative approach for promoting peace and building stability in the region. He will be greatly missed in Pakistan.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.75pt; 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: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'gn-tittle','serif'; color: #585656; letter-spacing: .25pt;\">McCain passed away at the age of 81 on Saturday night after battling glioblastoma \u2014 an aggressive brain cancer, discovered by his doctors in July 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Aug. 26 (TNS): Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has expressed his condolences on the passing of US senator John McCain. \u201cThoughts and prayers of the people of Pakistan are with the family and friends of Senator McCain,\u201d the statement from Foreign Office read. \u201cSenator John McCain had an illustrious military and public service career [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76373","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\/76373","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=76373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76374,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76373\/revisions\/76374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}