{"id":66491,"date":"2019-07-23T11:41:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T11:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=66491"},"modified":"2019-07-23T11:41:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T11:41:58","slug":"paks-new-lobbyist-in-us-is-a-controversial-ex-congressman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/paks-new-lobbyist-in-us-is-a-controversial-ex-congressman\/","title":{"rendered":"Pak\u2019s new lobbyist in US is a controversial ex-Congressman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Embassy of Pakistan here has hired the services of a former American lawmaker as a lobbyist, who had resigned from the House of Representatives amidst a scandal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Saturday, Pakistan\u2019s US ambassador Majeed Khan signed a contract with former Republican Congressman Tom Reynolds, representing Holland and Knight lobbying firm, to advance Pakistan\u2019s interests in the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi was present during the signing ceremony at the Embassy.\u201cJoining former Congressman Reynolds will be a team comprising other former members of Congress, former senior Administration officials, capitol Hill veterans and other professional experts,\u201d the Embassy said in a media release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amidst a raging controversy surrounding a pedophile ring, and financial scandal involving National Republican Congressional Committee, he announced on March 20, 2008 that he will not run for a sixth term.At that time, he was the fourth most powerful Republican Congressman in the House of Representatives.<\/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>The Embassy of Pakistan here has hired the services of a former American lawmaker as a lobbyist, who had resigned from the House of Representatives amidst a scandal. On Saturday, Pakistan\u2019s US ambassador Majeed Khan signed a contract with former Republican Congressman Tom Reynolds, representing Holland and Knight lobbying firm, to advance Pakistan\u2019s interests in [&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":66492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66491","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\/66491","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=66491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66493,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66491\/revisions\/66493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}