{"id":11057,"date":"2017-11-24T11:44:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T11:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=11057"},"modified":"2017-11-24T11:44:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T11:44:14","slug":"pakistan-accuses-india-of-politicising-humanitarian-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/pakistan-accuses-india-of-politicising-humanitarian-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan accuses India of \u2018politicising\u2019 humanitarian issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad,<br \/>\nPakistan on Thursday accused India of \u201cpoliticising\u201d humanitarian issues and said selective issuance of medical visas to its citizens was not a gesture of compassion but \u201ccold blooded politicking\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Office spokesman Mohammad Faisal said the Indian policy of selective issuance of medical visa to Pakistanis was \u201cregrettable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the weekly media briefing, Faisal said India continued to politicise humanitarian issues, which was more reprehensible as many patients have been consulting Indian doctors for a long time on their own expense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one is fooled by Indian gimmickry. This is not a gesture of compassion but cold-blooded politicking under which individuals are picked at will for political mileage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Faisal\u2019s remarks came days after External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj asked the Indian High Commission in Islamabad to grant a visa to a Pakistani woman for a liver transplant in India.<\/p>\n<p>Her intervention came after Sadia, the ailing woman\u2019s daughter, last week requested Swaraj for grant of a visa to her mother.<\/p>\n<p>Swaraj has been adopting a humanitarian approach in granting visas to Pakistani nationals on medical ground notwithstanding strain in relationship between the two sides over a host of sticky issues, including cross-border terrorism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Pakistan on Thursday accused India of \u201cpoliticising\u201d humanitarian issues and said selective issuance of medical visas to its citizens was not a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11059,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11057\/revisions\/11059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}