{"id":1892,"date":"2019-07-08T09:14:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T09:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2019-07-08T09:57:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T09:57:16","slug":"shaheen-is-future-pakistan-star-says-wasim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/shaheen-is-future-pakistan-star-says-wasim\/","title":{"rendered":"PM invokes Rand to describe state of economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"template__header clearfix modifier--open px-1 \">\n<h2 data-layout=\"story\" data-id=\"1492756\"><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"story__title size-ten mt-1 pb-3 border--bottom\" data-layout=\"story\" data-id=\"1492756\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;\">ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday shared the words of a renowned Russian-American writer, which in his view aptly describe the state in which the national economy was when the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf formed its government at the Centre.<\/span><\/h2>\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>In a post on Twitter, Mr Khan said: \u201cThis is so apt for the Pakistan inherited by the PTI government. Ayn Rand wrote this almost 60 years ago. It\u2019s frightening how accurate this statement is today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is so apt for the Pakistan inherited by the PTI govt. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MHUJWkDUMQ\">pic.twitter.com\/MHUJWkDUMQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImranKhanPTI\/status\/1147850559338295296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This was followed by a screenshot of one of the writer\u2019s famous quotes. The writer of the acclaimed work Atlas Shrugged had said: \u201cWhen you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion \u2014 when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing \u2014 when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in good, but in favours \u2014 when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work \u2014 when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice \u2014 you may know that your society is doomed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The PTI government claims that it has inherited a record deficit and foreign loans to the tune of Rs 30,000 billion.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media one-whole palm--one-whole media--stretch media--uneven media--embed \">\n<div class=\"media__item media__item--twitter \">\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"0\">\n<div class=\"resize-sensor\">\n<div class=\"resize-sensor-expand\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"resize-sensor-shrink\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday shared the words of a renowned Russian-American writer, which in his view aptly describe the state in which the national economy was when the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf formed its government at the Centre. In a post on Twitter, Mr Khan said: \u201cThis is so apt for the Pakistan inherited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,2,147],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-1892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-imran-khan","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892","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=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}