{"id":15499,"date":"2025-08-11T13:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T08:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=15499"},"modified":"2025-08-11T13:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T08:23:14","slug":"president-pm-emphasize-brotherhood-and-unity-for-a-prosperous-pakistan-on-national-minorities-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=15499","title":{"rendered":"President, PM Emphasize Brotherhood and Unity for a Prosperous Pakistan on National Minorities Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1655\" data-end=\"1901\"><strong>On the occasion of National Minorities Day, President Asif Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, in their separate messages, emphasized that fostering brotherhood, harmony, and unity is the key to building a prosperous and strong Pakistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1903\" data-end=\"2224\">President Zardari said that this day is a reaffirmation of the commitment to protect the rights of minorities and promote national harmony. He stated that today serves as a reminder of the vision of Pakistan\u2019s founder, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, in which every citizen is entitled to equality and mutual respect.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2226\" data-end=\"2463\">He added that minorities have rendered outstanding services in Pakistan\u2019s armed forces, judiciary, civil services, education, and healthcare sectors. The government will continue to work for their empowerment, development, and welfare.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2465\" data-end=\"2680\">Meanwhile, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that Pakistan has always stood with the international community in safeguarding the rights of minorities and will remain committed to ensuring their religious freedom.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2682\" data-end=\"2965\">He noted that Quaid-e-Azam\u2019s historic speech of August 11, 1947, stands as a conceptual guarantee for a secure future for minorities. He reaffirmed the government\u2019s resolve to provide equal opportunities to minorities so they can play a more effective role in national development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the occasion of National Minorities Day, President Asif Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, in their separate messages, emphasized that fostering brotherhood, harmony, and unity is the key to building a prosperous and strong Pakistan. President Zardari said that this day is a reaffirmation of the commitment to protect the rights of minorities and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[1996,7965,7966,7964,7961,1634],"class_list":["post-15499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-asif-zardari","tag-brotherhood","tag-harmony","tag-national-minorities-day","tag-quaid-e-azam","tag-shehbaz-sharif"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15501,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15499\/revisions\/15501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}