{"id":59409,"date":"2024-12-17T12:17:37","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T07:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=59409"},"modified":"2024-12-17T12:18:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T07:18:34","slug":"trumps-foreign-policy-aide-grenell-tweets-free-imran-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/trumps-foreign-policy-aide-grenell-tweets-free-imran-khan\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s foreign policy aide Grenell tweets, &#8216;Free Imran Khan&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Richard Grenell, picked as US President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s aide for <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/fawad-chaudhry-seeks-trumps-intervention-in-imran-khans-ouster-probe\/\">special missions<\/a> called for the release of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/former-scottish-first-minister-humza-yousaf-expresses-concern-over-imran-khans-imprisonment\/\">Imran Khan<\/a> in a post on social media.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">Taking on X,\u00a0Grenell tagged the <em>Geo News story<\/em> regarding his appointment and wrote, &#8220;I\u2019ll say it again. Free Imran Khan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">Following his tweet, several US politicians including former congressman and Trump&#8217;s aide Matt Gaetz also reiterated the demand to release former prime minister Imran Khan.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_59411\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59411\" style=\"width: 302px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-59411 \" src=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-12-17-at-12.08.10-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-12-17-at-12.08.10-AM.jpeg 903w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-12-17-at-12.08.10-AM-198x300.jpeg 198w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-12-17-at-12.08.10-AM-676x1024.jpeg 676w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-12-17-at-12.08.10-AM-768x1163.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-12-17-at-12.08.10-AM.avif 903w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-12-17-at-12.08.10-AM-198x300.avif 198w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-12-17-at-12.08.10-AM-676x1024.avif 676w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-12-17-at-12.08.10-AM-768x1163.avif 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-59411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2014 X\/@RichardGrenell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">Donald Trump on Saturday announced picking Richard Grenell, his former intelligence chief, as presidential envoy for special missions, a post where he will likely drive policies toward some US adversaries.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">&#8220;Ric will work in some of the hottest spots around the World, including Venezuela and North Korea,&#8221; Trump said on his Truth Social media platform without further describing the duties.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">Grenell served as Trump&#8217;s ambassador to Germany, a special presidential envoy for Serbia and Kosovo peace negotiations, and as acting director of national intelligence during Trump&#8217;s 2017-2021 term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Richard Grenell, picked as US President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s aide for special missions called for the release of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan in a post on social media. Taking on X,\u00a0Grenell tagged the Geo News story regarding his appointment and wrote, &#8220;I\u2019ll say it again. Free Imran Khan.&#8221; Following his tweet, several US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":59413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[184,24875,24874],"class_list":["post-59409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-donald-trump","tag-free-imran-khan","tag-richard-grenell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59409","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59414,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59409\/revisions\/59414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}