{"id":192880,"date":"2022-09-26T11:17:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T03:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=192880"},"modified":"2022-09-26T11:17:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T03:17:01","slug":"pakistan-finance-minister-resigns-after-meeting-with-party-chief-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=192880","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan finance minister resigns after meeting with party chief in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Shakir Husain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NEW DELHI, Sept 26 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Pakistan&#8217;s Finance Minister Miftah Ismail is resigning as the five-month-old government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif continues to battle serious economic challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I have verbally resigned as finance minister. I will tender a formal resignation upon reaching Pakistan,&#8221; Miftah said in a tweet on Sunday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been an honour to serve twice as finance minister,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 57-year-old businessman previously headed the Finance Ministry briefly in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miftah made the announcement after a meeting he and Shehbaz had with former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif in Britain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nawaz, Shehbaz&#8217;s elder brother, lives in London in self exile, having left Pakistan in November 2019 for medical treatment abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shehbaz&#8217;s coalition government is battling a number of economic problems, including rising inflation, dwindling foreign exchange reserves, and the task of rebuilding infrastructure destroyed in the recent floods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Shakir Husain NEW DELHI, Sept 26 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Pakistan&#8217;s Finance Minister Miftah Ismail is resigning as the five-month-old government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif continues to battle serious economic challenges. &#8220;I have verbally resigned as finance minister. I will tender a formal resignation upon reaching Pakistan,&#8221; Miftah said in a tweet on Sunday night. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192880"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192881,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192880\/revisions\/192881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}