{"id":59485,"date":"2019-04-19T11:25:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T11:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=59485"},"modified":"2019-04-19T11:25:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T11:25:07","slug":"pakistans-finance-minister-asad-umar-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/pakistans-finance-minister-asad-umar-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan&#8217;s Finance Minister Asad Umar resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s Finance  Minister Asad Umar abruptly quit the Cabinet on Thursday before securing  a multi-billion dollar International Monetary Fund bailout package for  the cash-strapped country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Umar recently returned from a trip to \nthe US in which the details of Pakistan&#8217;s next IMF bailout were \ndiscussed. He said, as part of a Cabinet reshuffle, Prime Minister Imran\n Khan desired him to take the Energy Minister portfolio instead of \nFinance. However, he obtained Khan&#8217;s consent to not take any cabinet \nposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imran Khan-led government and Umar, in particular, have\n faced mounting criticism by Opposition parties, members of the business\n community and citizens over the handling of the economic crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan\n is seeking eight billion dollars from the IMF to bail itself out from a\n severe balance-of-payments crisis that threatens to cripple the \ncountry&#8217;s economy.\n\n<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan&#8217;s Finance Minister Asad Umar abruptly quit the Cabinet on Thursday before securing a multi-billion dollar International Monetary Fund bailout package for the cash-strapped country. Umar recently returned from a trip to the US in which the details of Pakistan&#8217;s next IMF bailout were discussed. He said, as part of a Cabinet reshuffle, Prime Minister [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59485","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\/59485","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=59485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59487,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59485\/revisions\/59487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}