{"id":77762,"date":"2018-09-18T11:57:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T06:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=77762"},"modified":"2018-09-18T11:57:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T06:57:13","slug":"un-pakistan-calls-for-serious-peace-process-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=77762","title":{"rendered":"UN: Pakistan calls for serious peace process in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, Sep 18 (TNS): At the United Nations, while calling for a serious peace process in Afghanistan, Pakistan has reiterated to actively encourage, support and facilitate all efforts to launch a credible peace process.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking\u00a0 in a debate on Afghanistan at UN Security Council, Pakistan&#8217; Permanent Representative Dr. Maleeha Lodhi said that Prime Minister Imran Khan has long advocated a political settlement to bring the long war there to a negotiated end.<\/p>\n<p>She said that Afghanistan is the first country visited by Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi last weekend, which is a clear signal of the importance that the new Government attaches to its relations with Afghanistan and its commitment to promote peace and stability in that country.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Lodhi said that there are some signs that a negotiated end to Afghanistan\u2019s protracted war may be possible.<\/p>\n<p>She said the principal responsibility for seizing the moment rests on the parties directly involved in the Afghan conflict.<\/p>\n<p>She further said to create an environment for peace talks, all sides should agree on a de-escalation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, Sep 18 (TNS): At the United Nations, while calling for a serious peace process in Afghanistan, Pakistan has reiterated to actively encourage, support and facilitate all efforts to launch a credible peace process. Speaking\u00a0 in a debate on Afghanistan at UN Security Council, Pakistan&#8217; Permanent Representative Dr. Maleeha Lodhi said that Prime Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77762","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=77762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77764,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77762\/revisions\/77764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}