{"id":39486,"date":"2017-11-15T13:17:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T13:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/?p=39486"},"modified":"2017-11-15T13:17:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T13:17:40","slug":"saarc-needs-to-be-turned-into-an-effective-platform-president-mamnoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/2017\/11\/saarc-needs-to-be-turned-into-an-effective-platform-president-mamnoon\/","title":{"rendered":"SAARC needs to be turned into an effective platform: President Mamnoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-39486-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/President-Address-in-Karachi.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/President-Address-in-Karachi.mp4\">http:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/President-Address-in-Karachi.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>KARACHI, Nov. 15 (APP): President Mamnoon Hussain here on<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday called for turning the platform of SAARC effective through<\/p>\n<p>strong regional connectivity and people to people contact.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a conference on Peace in South Asia, organized by<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan Institute of International Affairs (PIIA), he said the region<\/p>\n<p>home to around 1.7 billion, representing 21% of the world population,<\/p>\n<p>is in urgent need of peace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;South Asia is mired in several crisis and conflicts at the<\/p>\n<p>moment due to various unresolved political and geographical factors,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>said the President.<\/p>\n<p>Mentioning that the situation was getting all the more complex<\/p>\n<p>due to India&#8217;s ongoing arms build-up, instability in Afghanistan and<\/p>\n<p>the menace of terrorism, he said the situation can be aptly tackled<\/p>\n<p>through regional cooperation and settling of longstanding disputes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe that the whole region of South Asia is in search for<\/p>\n<p>peace and prosperity, however, these have become elusive due to war<\/p>\n<p>and conflicts,&#8221; regretted President Mamnoon Hussain.<\/p>\n<p>He reiterated that destiny of the people in region was linked<\/p>\n<p>with each other and it is only through mutual cooperation that they<\/p>\n<p>can fight poverty, unemployment, climate change, militancy and other<\/p>\n<p>public issues.<\/p>\n<p>More\/rh\/ms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI, Nov. 15 (APP): President Mamnoon Hussain here on Wednesday called for turning the platform of SAARC effective through strong regional connectivity and people to people contact. Addressing a conference on Peace in South Asia, organized by Pakistan Institute of International Affairs (PIIA), he said the region home to around 1.7 billion, representing 21% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39486","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\/11\/President-Address-in-Karachi.mp4"],"featured_media_src_url":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1-68.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39486","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=39486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39487,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39486\/revisions\/39487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}