{"id":79314,"date":"2020-02-01T10:45:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T10:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=79314"},"modified":"2020-02-01T10:45:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T10:45:27","slug":"pakistan-govt-dismisses-reports-of-four-fold-pay-hike-for-imran-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/pakistan-govt-dismisses-reports-of-four-fold-pay-hike-for-imran-khan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan govt dismisses reports of four-fold pay hike for Imran Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The cash-strapped Pakistan government has dismissed as &#8220;baseless&#8221; reports of Prime Minister Imran Khan getting a near-four-fold hike in salary, according to media reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The clarification was issued after news reports claimed the prime minister&#8217;s gross salary would be increased from Rs 2,01,574 to around Rs 8,00,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have reduced the expenses of the Prime Minister House by 40 per cent. I live in my own home, pay my own expenses. My salary is not enough to cover the expenses of my own household,&#8221; Khan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pakistan government has been implementing austerity measures to improve the country&#8217;s finances. In July last year, Pakistan registered a currency reserve of less than USD 8 billion enough to cover only 1.7 months of imports.In August 2018, Pakistan approached the International Monetary Fund for a bailout package after the Khan government took over.<\/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 cash-strapped Pakistan government has dismissed as &#8220;baseless&#8221; reports of Prime Minister Imran Khan getting a near-four-fold hike in salary, according to media reports. The clarification was issued after news reports claimed the prime minister&#8217;s gross salary would be increased from Rs 2,01,574 to around Rs 8,00,000. &#8220;We have reduced the expenses of the Prime [&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":79315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79314","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\/79314","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=79314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79316,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79314\/revisions\/79316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}