{"id":1878,"date":"2019-07-08T07:38:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T07:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2019-07-08T07:43:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T07:43:26","slug":"pm-wants-to-avoid-pricey-hotels-during-his-stay-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pm-wants-to-avoid-pricey-hotels-during-his-stay-in-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"PM wants to avoid pricey hotels during his stay in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"template__header clearfix modifier--open px-1 \">\n<h2 class=\"story__title size-ten mt-1 pb-3 border--bottom\" data-layout=\"story\" data-id=\"1492742\"><\/h2>\n<div class=\"block sm-inline-block clearfix float-none sm-float-right\">\n<div class=\"social social--comment social--icon social--black social--flat social--count font-normal float-left mr-1 my-2\">WASHINGTON: Officials in Islamabad are believed to have informed the Pakistan embassy that Prime Minister Imran Khan desires to stay at the ambassador\u2019s official residence instead of an expensive hotel during his three-day visit to Washington.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"template__main clearfix modifier--open px-1 modifier--widedefault modifier--blockquote-center-narrow \">\n<div class=\"story__content pt-1 mt-1\">\n<p>While staying at the ambassador\u2019s residence can considerably reduce the cost of the visit, a probe revealed that neither the United States secret service nor the city administration appears \u201cvery receptive\u201d to the idea.<\/p>\n<p>A visiting government head also holds a number of meetings with US officials, lawmakers and media and think-tank representatives during his stay in Washington. Since the residence is not large enough for all these meetings, the prime minister will have to meet his guests at the Pakistan embassy, commuting through Washington\u2019s busy traffic during rush hours. To do so, his entourage will have to drive by most of these embassies as well as the US vice president\u2019s official residence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: Officials in Islamabad are believed to have informed the Pakistan embassy that Prime Minister Imran Khan desires to stay at the ambassador\u2019s official residence instead of an expensive hotel during his three-day visit to Washington. While staying at the ambassador\u2019s residence can considerably reduce the cost of the visit, a probe revealed that neither [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,147,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","category-politics","category-world","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}