{"id":1163288,"date":"2026-02-16T08:21:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.app.com.pk\/national\/pakistan-seeks-peace-good-neighbourly-ties-but-not-at-cost-of-dignity-gilani\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T08:21:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:21:58","slug":"pakistan-seeks-peace-good-neighbourly-ties-but-not-at-cost-of-dignity-gilani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/pakistan-seeks-peace-good-neighbourly-ties-but-not-at-cost-of-dignity-gilani\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan seeks peace &#038; good neighbourly ties, but not at cost of dignity: Gilani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, Feb 16 (APP): The visiting Senate Chairman, Yusuf Raza Gilani, told a gathering of the Pakistani-American community in New York that<br \/>\nPakistan is fast emerging as a dynamic country on the global stage.<\/p>\n<p>The event brought together a diverse cross-section of the diaspora, including professionals, business leaders, and journalists.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman Gilani led Pakistan&#8217;s six-member delegation to the just-concluded Annual Hearing of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) at the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the participants, the Chairman Senate said that sustained and intensive efforts are underway to transform Pakistan into a developed welfare state.<\/p>\n<p>He further highlighted that the Government is introducing multiple initiatives aimed at the welfare and facilitation of overseas Pakistanis.<\/p>\n<p>Emphasizing Pakistan\u2019s foreign policy outlook, Chairman Gilani stated that the country seeks peace and good-neighborly relations, but not at the cost of its dignity or national interests.<\/p>\n<p>He observed that while Pakistan is endowed with a prime geostrategic location, it faces a challenging neighbourhood, adding that durable regional peace requires the resolution of all core issues, including Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan seeks peace &#038; good neighbourly ties, but not at cost of dignity: Gilani<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":828356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","_speechable_audio":"","_speechable_word_timings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[5685,9017,3240],"post_template":[],"top_category":[],"class_list":["post-1163288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign-correspondent","tag-chairman-senate-syed-yusuf-raza-gilani","tag-inter-parliamentary-union-ipu","tag-peace","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163288"},{"taxonomy":"post_template","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_template?post=1163288"},{"taxonomy":"top_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/top_category?post=1163288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}