{"id":76883,"date":"2018-08-31T17:30:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T12:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=76883"},"modified":"2018-08-31T17:30:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T12:30:34","slug":"coas-iranian-fm-discuss-regional-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=76883","title":{"rendered":"COAS, Iranian FM discuss regional security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rawalpindi, Aug 31 (TNS): Foreign Minister of Iran Mohammad-Javad Zarif on Friday met with Pakistan Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa and discussed regional security situation and other matters of mutual interest, a military statement said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe visiting dignitary acknowledged and appreciated Pakistan\u2019s contributions for conflict prevention in the region,\u201d a statement, issued by the military&#8217;s media wing Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), reInter-Services<\/p>\n<p>security situation and other matters of mutual interest were discussed. COAS said Pakistan is taking sincere steps for peace and security in the region,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian Foreign Minister had arrived in Islamabad a day earlier on a two-day visit. The Iranian minister is the first top foreign diplomat to visit Pakistan after the new government came into power earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>It is pertinent to mention that this is Zarif\u2019s eighth visit to Pakistan since he became Iranian foreign minister in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>General Qamar Javed Bajwa had also visited Iran in November last year and met with Iranian leaders to further enhance coordination between the two countries, especially in the defense sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Rawalpindi, Aug 31 (TNS): Foreign Minister of Iran Mohammad-Javad Zarif on Friday met with Pakistan Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa and discussed regional security situation and other matters of mutual interest, a military statement said. \u201cThe visiting dignitary acknowledged and appreciated Pakistan\u2019s contributions for conflict prevention in the region,\u201d a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-rawalpindi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76883","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=76883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76885,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76883\/revisions\/76885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}