{"id":83226,"date":"2019-09-16T11:35:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T01:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=83226"},"modified":"2019-09-16T11:35:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T01:35:16","slug":"govt-devolving-powers-at-grass-roots-level-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/govt-devolving-powers-at-grass-roots-level-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt devolving powers at grass-roots level: PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>news desk<br \/>\nislamabad<br \/>\nPrime Minister Imran Khan says the country is heading in the right direction and the people would soon see the difference.<br \/>\nIn an interview with Al Jazeera TV, he said after completion of five years, the PTI government would leave behind \u2018a surplus economy and it would be the last IMF package for the country.<br \/>\nTo a query, the Prime Minister said IMF has not dictated anything which is against Pakistan\u2019s sovereignty.<br \/>\nImran Khan said PTI government has introduced a \u2018New Pakistan\u2019 in which rule of law is supreme.<br \/>\nHe said there is no precedent in country\u2019s history to put the mega corrupt elements into jails like it happened now.<br \/>\nHe said the government is devolving powers at the local levels to empower local populace. Imran Khan said the government is taking the most difficult decisions ever taken in country\u2019s history. He said what his government has done had never been done by the previous regimes.<br \/>\nWhile talking on Kashmir issue he said that if a conventional war breaks out between Pakistan and India, there was every possibility that it could end up into a nuclear conflict which was unthinkable.<br \/>\nPM Imran when asked whether the two nuclear countries are at risk of another major conflict, or even war, he said \u201cabsolutely\u201d, believing war with India could be a possibility.<br \/>\n\u201cEight million Muslims in Kashmir are under siege for almost now six weeks. And why this can become a flashpoint between India and Pakistan is because what we already know India is trying to do is divert attention from their illegal annexation and their impending genocide on Kashmir,\u201d he said. \u201cThey are taking the attention away by blaming Pakistan for terrorism,\u201d the prime minister asserted.<br \/>\nHe added, \u201cPakistan would never start a war, and I am clear: I am a pacifist, I am anti-war, I believe that wars do not solve any problems.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWhen two nuclear-armed countries fight, if they fight a conventional war, there is every possibility that it is going to end up into nuclear war. The unthinkable,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>news desk islamabad Prime Minister Imran Khan says the country is heading in the right direction and the people would soon see the difference. In an interview with Al Jazeera TV, he said after completion of five years, the PTI government would leave behind \u2018a surplus economy and it would be the last IMF package [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Govt devolving powers at grass-roots level: PM<\/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\/govt-devolving-powers-at-grass-roots-level-pm\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Govt devolving powers at grass-roots level: PM\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"news desk islamabad Prime Minister Imran Khan says the country is heading in the right direction and the people would soon see the difference. 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