{"id":4887,"date":"2016-09-24T06:53:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T06:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=4887"},"modified":"2016-09-24T06:53:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T06:53:14","slug":"pak-warns-india-giving-asylum-bugti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=4887","title":{"rendered":"Pak warns India against giving asylum to Bugti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cIndia granting asylum to Bugti will amount to harbouring a terrorist by a State&#8230;Thus (India) becoming official sponsor of terrorism,\u201d Pakistan\u2019s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif tweeted.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pakistan today warned India that by granting asylum to Baloch leader Brahamdagh Bugti, it will become an \u201cofficial sponsor of terrorism.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cIndia granting asylum to Bugti will amount to harbouring a terrorist by a State&#8230;Thus (India) becoming official sponsor of terrorism,\u201d Pakistan\u2019s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Asif\u2019s remarks came after it emerged that Bugti\u2019s application seeking political asylum in India was yesterday received by the Home Ministry which is examining it.<br \/>\nBugti, who has been living in Switzerland, on Tuesday approached the Indian Embassy in Geneva seeking asylum in India and exuded confidence of a positive response from New Delhi.<br \/>\nBugti is the President and founder of Baloch Republican Party. The decision of seeking asylum was taken at a meeting of the Baloch Republican Party on Sunday in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>He is the grandson of Nawab Akbar Bugti, a Baloch nationalist leader killed by the Pakistani army in 2006.<br \/>\nPakistan government had blamed India for helping Bugti flee Pakistan to Geneva in 2010 via Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Press Trust of India <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIndia granting asylum to Bugti will amount to harbouring a terrorist by a State&#8230;Thus (India) becoming official sponsor of terrorism,\u201d Pakistan\u2019s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif tweeted. Pakistan today warned India that by granting asylum to Baloch leader Brahamdagh Bugti, it will become an \u201cofficial sponsor of terrorism.\u201d \u201cIndia granting asylum to Bugti will amount to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}