{"id":20357,"date":"2017-01-25T10:27:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T10:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/?p=20357"},"modified":"2017-01-25T10:27:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T10:27:30","slug":"ambassador-of-japan-calls-on-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/2017\/01\/ambassador-of-japan-calls-on-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador of Japan calls on Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 696px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-20357-1\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/x-flv\" src=\"http:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Ambassador-of-Japan-calls-on-PM-25-01-2017-.flv?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Ambassador-of-Japan-calls-on-PM-25-01-2017-.flv\">http:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Ambassador-of-Japan-calls-on-PM-25-01-2017-.flv<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>ISLAMABAD, Jan 25 (APP): Ambassador of Japan to Pakistan Takashi Kurai, called on Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif here at the PM House on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister said that Pakistan regards Japan as a close friend and a reliable economic partner. PM further said that law and order situation in the country has significantly improved as a consequence of operation \u201cZarb-e-Azb\u201d and Pakistan hopes Japan would review Pakistan\u2019s inclusion in Travel Advisory list in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>Emphasizing on bilateral relations, PM said that Pakistan looks forward to greater level of cooperation between the two countries particularly in the areas of trade, investment, infrastructure and energy.<br \/>\nPM stated that both sides need to initiate negotiations on bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA).\u00a0Japan may also consider a 3-4 year exception for Pakistani textiles under its Temporary Tariff Measures to bring Pakistan at par with its competitors, which enjoy free access to Japanese market, the Prime Minister said.<br \/>\nPM also welcomed companies from Japan to invest in Pakistan that would enhance the capacity of Pakistan industrial sector to produce value added goods.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador of Japan appreciated Pakistan\u2019s economic growth and stated that Pakistan\u2019s perception particularly in Japan has changed to a business-friendly country. The Ambassador further said that Japan gives importance to investment security, infrastructure and business-friendly environment and in all three aspects Pakistan has achieved remarkable improvement.<\/p>\n<p>APP\/Hamza\/mka\/VNS Islamabad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Jan 25 (APP): Ambassador of Japan to Pakistan Takashi Kurai, called on Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif here at the PM House on Wednesday. Prime Minister said that Pakistan regards Japan as a close friend and a reliable economic partner. PM further said that law and order situation in the country has significantly improved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"post_format-post-format-video"},"video_url":["http:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Ambassador-of-Japan-calls-on-PM-25-01-2017-.flv"],"featured_media_src_url":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/4-13-1024x576.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20361,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20357\/revisions\/20361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}