{"id":54857,"date":"2023-05-04T23:54:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T14:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/04\/pakistani-minister-flies-to-india-for-first-visit-by-a-senior-official-in-12-years"},"modified":"2023-05-04T23:54:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T14:54:19","slug":"pakistani-minister-flies-to-india-for-first-visit-by-a-senior-official-in-12-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54857","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani minister flies to India for first visit by a senior official in 12 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign minister plays down any prospect of reconciliation effort as he stresses trip to Goa is purely for regional summit<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s foreign minister, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, arrived in Goa on Thursday, the first visit to India by a senior Pakistani official in 12 years.<\/p>\n<p>Yet few held out hope that the trip signalled efforts for reconciliation between the two neighbours and rivals. Speaking as he boarded the plane to Goa, where India is chairing the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) council of foreign ministers on Friday morning, Bhutto Zardari emphasised that his presence would be \u201cfocused exclusively on SCO\u201d and avoided any mention of India.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/04\/pakistani-minister-flies-to-india-for-first-visit-by-a-senior-official-in-12-years\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign minister plays down any prospect of reconciliation effort as he stresses trip to Goa is purely for regional summitPakistan\u2019s foreign minister, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, arrived in Goa on Thursday, the first visit to India by a senior Pakistani of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3046,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3046"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54858,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54857\/revisions\/54858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}