{"id":62093,"date":"2019-05-26T09:30:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T09:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=62093"},"modified":"2019-05-26T09:30:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T09:30:19","slug":"pak-pm-warns-against-war-in-region-amid-iran-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/pak-pm-warns-against-war-in-region-amid-iran-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Pak PM warns against war in region amid Iran tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan warned against the risk of conflict in the region, following a visit to Islamabad by Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif as tensions between Washington and Tehran escalated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Strains have increased between Iran and the United States, which is a firm backer of Tehran\u2019s regional rival Saudi Arabia, in the wake of this month\u2019s attack on oil tankers in the Gulf region that Washington has blamed on Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tehran has distanced itself from the bombings, but the United States has sent a aircraft carrier and an extra 1,500 troops to the Gulf, sparking concerns about the risks of conflict in a volatile region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khan, who has been seeking to improve Pakistan\u2019s strained relations with neighbour Iran, said he was concerned about the \u201crising tensions in the Gulf\u201d, but did not specifically name the United States or Saudi Arabia.<br>\n\u201cHe underscored that war was not a solution to any problem,\u201d Khan\u2019s office said in a statement late on Friday, citing the premier.<\/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>Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan warned against the risk of conflict in the region, following a visit to Islamabad by Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif as tensions between Washington and Tehran escalated. Strains have increased between Iran and the United States, which is a firm backer of Tehran\u2019s regional rival Saudi Arabia, in the wake [&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":62094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62093","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\/62093","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=62093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62095,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62093\/revisions\/62095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}