{"id":27413,"date":"2018-12-30T10:22:04","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T10:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27413"},"modified":"2018-12-30T10:22:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T10:22:04","slug":"arif-alvi-we-want-peaceful-relations-with-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27413","title":{"rendered":"Arif Alvi: &#8216;We want peaceful relations with India&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"79.5523076923\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/pakistan.html\">Pakistan<\/a> plays an increasingly important role in the world&#8217;s geopolitical dynamics as the only predominantly Muslim country with nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>But with a new government faced with an economy in crisis, can Pakistan overcome its internal challenges?<\/p>\n<div class=\"QuoteContainer\">\n<table class=\"Skyscrapper_Body in-article-item quote\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody readability=\"3\">\n<tr readability=\"10\">\n<td readability=\"11\">\n<p>Pakistan has been making positive gestures, doing practical measures, and Pakistan is showing the will [that] it wants peace with India.<\/p>\n<p class=\"quoted-author\">Arif Alvi, <span> President of Pakistan <\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>The relations with its neighbour <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/india.html\">India<\/a> are at yet another low\u2026 but after four wars in seven decades, they&#8217;ve taken some confidence building measures. But are they ready to settle their differences?<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan is closer than ever to its other neighbour, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/china.html\">China<\/a>. Islamabad and Beijing have started a $62bn bilateral agreement as part of China&#8217;s global belt and road initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Both countries deny any military aspect to their flourishing ties pact, but how is this relationship affecting Pakistan&#8217;s other important relationship &#8211; that&#8217;s with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-states.html\">United States<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/donald-trump.html\">Donald Trump<\/a> first blasted Islamabad but then asked Pakistan for help to find peace in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/afghanistan.html\">Afghanistan<\/a>. But after decades of US failure and an imminent troop withdrawal, can and will Pakistan take over regional security?<\/p>\n<p>Arif Alvi, President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, talks to Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan plays an increasingly important role in the world&#8217;s geopolitical dynamics as the only predominantly Muslim country with nuclear weapons. But with a new government faced with an economy in crisis, can Pakistan overcome its internal challenges? Pakistan has been making positive gestures, doing practical measures, and Pakistan is showing the will [that] it wants&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}