{"id":40718,"date":"2018-08-31T11:18:33","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T11:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=40718"},"modified":"2018-08-31T11:18:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T11:18:33","slug":"imran-khan-pays-first-visit-to-pakistan-army-headquarters-for-security-briefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/imran-khan-pays-first-visit-to-pakistan-army-headquarters-for-security-briefing\/","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan pays first visit to Pakistan army headquarters for security briefing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s new Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday said his first visit to the army headquarters in the garrison city of Rawalpindi where he was briefed on the security issues.<\/p>\n<p>Khan, the Chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), won the July 25 general election amidst the perception that the Pakistan Army, a major player in Pakistan\u2019s politics, has thrown its weight behind his party.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister was accompanied by Defence Minister Pervez Khattak, Foreign Affairs Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Finance Minister Asad Umar among others.<\/p>\n<p>Khan was received by Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa at the General Headquarters, Army spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrime Minister (is) being briefed on defence, internal security and other professional matters,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, General Bajwa had the first formal meeting with Prime Minister Khan, who was sworn-in as the 22nd premier of Pakistan on August 18, and discussed the security situation in the country as well as the efforts to ensure long-lasting peace and stability in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Bajwa had congratulated Khan on assuming the top ministerial job during their meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s new Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday said his first visit to the army headquarters in the garrison city of Rawalpindi where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40718","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\/40718","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=40718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40720,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40718\/revisions\/40720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}