{"id":520134,"date":"2025-12-15T18:31:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=520134"},"modified":"2025-12-15T18:31:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:31:40","slug":"ambassador-of-qatar-calls-on-defence-minister-khawaja-asif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/ambassador-of-qatar-calls-on-defence-minister-khawaja-asif\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador of Qatar calls on Defence Minister Khawaja Asif"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ambassador of Qatar Ali Mubarak Ali Essa Al Khater called on Minister for Defence Khawaja Muhammad Asif here on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister for Defence welcomed the dignitary and conveyed that Pakistan attached great value to its relations with Qatar, said a press release.<br \/>\n\u201cQatar is an important country for us and has a key role to play in the region. Our relations with Qatar are very smooth governed by mutual respect and cooperation,\u201d Khawaja said.<br \/>\nThe Minister said that both sides need to work closely to further extend their cooperation beyond the economic domain to defence, military exercises and training of personals and joint ventures. \u201cOur military institutions are open for Qatari Armed Forces to avail maximum training facilities.\u201d<br \/>\nThe visiting dignitary acknowledged the existing scope and scale of cooperation in the field of defence between the two countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ambassador of Qatar Ali Mubarak Ali Essa Al Khater called on Minister for Defence Khawaja Muhammad Asif here on Monday. The Minister for Defence welcomed the dignitary and conveyed that Pakistan attached great value to its relations with Qatar, said a press release. \u201cQatar is an important country for us and has a key role [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-520134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ambassador of Qatar calls on Defence Minister Khawaja Asif<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/ambassador-of-qatar-calls-on-defence-minister-khawaja-asif\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ambassador of Qatar calls on Defence Minister Khawaja Asif\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ambassador of Qatar Ali Mubarak Ali Essa Al Khater called on Minister for Defence Khawaja Muhammad Asif here on Monday. 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