{"id":74476,"date":"2025-09-27T20:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/27\/pakistan-us-oil-deal-analysis-trump"},"modified":"2025-09-27T20:00:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T11:00:42","slug":"trump-brags-of-massive-oil-deal-in-pakistan-but-drilling-has-not-found-any","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74476","title":{"rendered":"Trump brags of \u2018massive\u2019 oil deal in Pakistan \u2013\u00a0but drilling has not found any"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Announcement of deal baffles experts and former ministers, who say there is no sign of any untapped reserves<\/p>\n<p>The newfound camaraderie between the US and Pakistan was on full display this week as Donald Trump welcomed Pakistan\u2019s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, and the country\u2019s powerful army chief, Asim Munir, into the Oval Office, heralding them both as \u201cgreat leaders\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Having been cold-shouldered by successive US presidents, this was the first time a Pakistani prime minister had been invited to Washington in more than six years. It was also the unprecedented second time this year that Munir \u2013 who holds no official government role \u2013 held an intimate meeting with Trump, which many took as a telling signal of where the power to cut deals really lies in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/27\/pakistan-us-oil-deal-analysis-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announcement of deal baffles experts and former ministers, who say there is no sign of any untapped reservesThe newfound camaraderie between the US and Pakistan was on full display this week as Donald Trump welcomed Pakistan\u2019s prime minister, Shehbaz S&#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":[666,415,449,60,61,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commodities","category-donald-trump","category-oil","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74476","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=74476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74477,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74476\/revisions\/74477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}