{"id":57503,"date":"2023-08-12T20:59:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T11:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/12\/pakistan-appoints-little-known-senator-as-caretaker-prime-minister-anwaar-ul-haq-kakar"},"modified":"2023-08-12T22:55:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T13:55:26","slug":"pakistan-appoints-little-known-senator-as-caretaker-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57503","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan appoints little-known senator as caretaker PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar to navigate economic and political turmoil after Imran Khan conviction<\/p>\n<p>A little-known senator from Pakistan\u2019s least populous province has been announced as caretaker prime minister to see the country through to the next election, the leader of the opposition said.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistani prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, and opposition leader, Raja Riaz, agreed on Saturday to name senator Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar as caretaker premier.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/12\/pakistan-appoints-little-known-senator-as-caretaker-prime-minister-anwaar-ul-haq-kakar\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar to navigate economic and political turmoil after Imran Khan convictionA little-known senator from Pakistan\u2019s least populous province has been announced as caretaker prime minister to see the country through to the next election, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[359,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imran-khan","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\/57503","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57509,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57503\/revisions\/57509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}