{"id":79956,"date":"2018-11-20T18:19:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T13:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=79956"},"modified":"2018-11-20T18:19:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T13:19:27","slug":"pakistan-has-done-more-for-peace-in-afghanistan-than-any-other-country-army-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=79956","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan has done more for peace in Afghanistan than any other country: army chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Nov 20 (TNS): Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa on Tuesday highlighted Pakistan&#8217;s efforts in the war against terrorism and for regional peace, saying the country &#8220;has done much more for peace in Afghanistan than any other country&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The statement comes a day after US President Donald Trump&#8217;s continued tirade against Pakistan and its strong rebuttal by Prime Minister Imran Khan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pakistan has successfully fought against terrorism while also contributing to regional peace,&#8221; a tweeted by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor quoted the army chief as saying.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cPakistan has successfully fought against terrorism while also contributing to regional peace. Pakistan has done much more for peace in Afghanistan than any other country\u201d, COAS. (1 of 2).<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor (@OfficialDGISPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialDGISPR\/status\/1064855480181407745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In an apparent reference to Trump\u2019s remarks regarding alleged inaction on Pakistan&#8217;s part on the Afghanistan issue, Gen Bajwa said Pakistan has &#8220;paid the highest military, economic, political and social cost and the world should acknowledge that&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We shall continue to contribute towards peace in Afghanistan,&#8221; the army chief said, &#8220;but Pakistan\u2019s honour and Pakistan\u2019s security shall always stay premier&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe have paid the highest military, economic, political and social cost and the world should acknowledge that. We shall continue to contribute towards peace in Afghanistan but Pakistan\u2019s honour and Pakistan\u2019s security shall always stay premier\u201d COAS. (2 of 2).<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor (@OfficialDGISPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialDGISPR\/status\/1064855600515989504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Nov 20 (TNS): Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa on Tuesday highlighted Pakistan&#8217;s efforts in the war against terrorism and for regional peace, saying the country &#8220;has done much more for peace in Afghanistan than any other country&#8221;. The statement comes a day after US President Donald Trump&#8217;s continued tirade against Pakistan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","category-rawalpindi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79956","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=79956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79957,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79956\/revisions\/79957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}