{"id":12260,"date":"2025-06-11T04:23:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T04:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=12260"},"modified":"2025-06-11T04:23:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T04:23:55","slug":"pakistani-army-chief-to-visit-the-u-s-soon-says-khalilzad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2025\/06\/11\/pakistani-army-chief-to-visit-the-u-s-soon-says-khalilzad\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani army chief to visit the U.S. soon, says Khalilzad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. envoy for peace in Afghanistan, said in a post on his X today that General Asim Munir, Pakistan&#8217;s Chief of Army Staff, will visit Washington soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stated that Munir will discuss counterterrorism efforts and the ongoing conflict between India and Pakistan, with the U.S. officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khalilzad noted: \u201cMunir plans to propose cooperation from Pakistan to improve relations between the U.S. and China, like Pakistan&#8217;s role during Nixon&#8217;s opening of relations with China.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, he mentioned that Islamabad&#8217;s efforts to attract U.S. investment in Pakistan&#8217;s mineral resources will also be on the agenda for Munir&#8217;s visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khalilzad further stated that if Pakistan seeks to influence this visit, it should first release Shakil Afridi, who collaborated with the U.S. in locating former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pakistani government has yet to officially comment on this visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan has recently increased its military budget by 20% and is considering purchasing dozens of fighter jets&nbsp;from&nbsp;China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. envoy for peace in Afghanistan, said in a post on his X today that General Asim Munir, Pakistan&#8217;s Chief of Army Staff, will visit Washington soon. He stated that Munir will discuss counterterrorism efforts and the ongoing conflict between India and Pakistan, with the U.S. officials. Khalilzad noted: \u201cMunir plans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[82],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12262,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12260\/revisions\/12262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}