{"id":11451,"date":"2021-08-13T13:51:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T13:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=11451"},"modified":"2021-08-13T13:51:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T13:51:05","slug":"australian-high-commissioner-lights-diyas-at-home-on-pakistan-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/australian-high-commissioner-lights-diyas-at-home-on-pakistan-independence-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian High Commissioner Lights &#8220;DIYAS&#8221; at home on Pakistan Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11452\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Aus-HC-lighting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Aus-HC-lighting.jpg 500w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Aus-HC-lighting-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Islamabad; The Australian High Commissioner to Pakistan, Dr Geoffrey Shaw congratulated Pakistan on its 74<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Independence Day. In a special message, he said:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI join the people and Government of Pakistan in celebrating the occasion of Pakistan Independence Day.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pakistan has continued to strengthen as a nation during its 74 years of independence and Australia has been a steadfast friend throughout this time.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We were one of the first countries to formally recognise the new nation of Pakistan in 1947. Since then, the relationship between our two countries has strengthened and deepened.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have much in common \u2013 including our shared love of cricket and historical ties. Our strong linkages are shown by the more than 80,000 people of Pakistani origin who now call Australia home.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have longstanding bilateral cooperation with Pakistan in many areas including education, trade, agriculture, development, defence and security \u2013 which provides a solid foundation to advance our relationship further.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jashan-e-Azaadi Mubarak.\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Photo caption: Australian High Commissioner Dr Geoffrey Shaw lights diyas at home as he joined Pakistanis in celebrating Pakistan Independence Day.<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad; The Australian High Commissioner to Pakistan, Dr Geoffrey Shaw congratulated Pakistan on its 74th\u00a0Independence Day. In a special message, he said: \u201cI join the people and Government of Pakistan in celebrating the occasion of Pakistan Independence Day. Pakistan has continued to strengthen as a nation during its 74 years of independence and Australia has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[321,355,1546,1545,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11453,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11451\/revisions\/11453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}