{"id":3060,"date":"2015-10-12T18:54:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T18:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=3060"},"modified":"2015-10-12T18:55:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T18:55:59","slug":"pakistan-army-chief-awarded-turkish-legion-of-merit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/pakistan-army-chief-awarded-turkish-legion-of-merit\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Army Chief awarded Turkish Legion of Merit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ankara (Turkey) &#8211; Pakistan&#8217;s Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif arrived in Turkey on a three-day official visit on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Army chief was presented guard of honor at Turkish Land Forces Headquarters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Army Chief was awarded Legend of Merit Award for his services for regional peace and for taking courageous steps against terrorism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gen. Raheel Sharif expressed heartfelt condolences on Ankara terrorist blast and\u00a0said Pakistan understands the enormity of challenges facing Turkey and stands by it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He visited Land Force Headquarters and met his Turkish counterpart\u00a0and discussed matters of defense cooperation.\u00a0 The army chief also discussed enhanced cooperation in the field of counterterrorism with his Turkish counterpart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking on the occasion, General Raheel Sharif said the brotherly relations between Pakistan and Turkey are time tested and everlasting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cPakistan and Turkey are facing daunting challenges. I am sure we will surmount them with a common and coherent approach,\u201d said Sharif. \u201cWe assure you our unflinching support.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COAS?src=hash\">#COAS<\/a> was awarded Turkish Legend of Merit for services for regional peace,courageously handling terrorism menace..-6 <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/uLrlO5j6Wl\">pic.twitter.com\/uLrlO5j6Wl<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 AsimBajwa (@AsimBajwaISPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AsimBajwaISPR\/status\/653564597576835072\">October 12, 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ankara (Turkey) &#8211; Pakistan&#8217;s Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif arrived in Turkey on a three-day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[62,1],"tags":[218,6,210,8,11,82],"class_list":["post-3060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-army","tag-defense","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-pakistan","tag-terrorism","tag-turkey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/pak-coas-in-turkey.jpg?fit=600%2C322&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-Nm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3060"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3064,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060\/revisions\/3064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}