{"id":23107,"date":"2026-07-29T16:09:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T11:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23107"},"modified":"2026-07-29T16:09:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T11:09:47","slug":"barrister-gohar-kashmir-is-pakistans-jugular-vein-political-tensions-must-be-avoided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23107","title":{"rendered":"Barrister Gohar: Kashmir Is Pakistan&#8217;s Jugular Vein, Political Tensions Must Be Avoided"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan has said that Kashmir is Pakistan&#8217;s &#8220;jugular vein&#8221; and should not be allowed to become another arena for political confrontation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media near Adiala Jail, Gohar said the PTI had maintained that a conducive environment was necessary before elections in Azad Kashmir, adding that only free and fair polls could help move the country forward.<\/p>\n<p>He said the country&#8217;s two major political parties had contributed to the current situation through political rivalry, but stressed that this was not the time for political point-scoring and that a responsible approach was needed.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the case registered against Noreen Bibi, Gohar said filing such cases does not help improve the situation. He added that the remarks made by Noreen Niazi were her personal views and that she had subsequently clarified her statement.<\/p>\n<p>The PTI chairman also said that a meeting with the party&#8217;s founder, Imran Khan, was key to improving the current political situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan has said that Kashmir is Pakistan&#8217;s &#8220;jugular vein&#8221; and should not be allowed to become another arena for political confrontation. Speaking to the media near Adiala Jail, Gohar said the PTI had maintained that a conducive environment was necessary before elections in Azad Kashmir, adding that only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18400,"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":[453,974,1930,79,13229,62,828,72],"class_list":["post-23107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-adiala-jail","tag-azad-kashmir","tag-barrister-gohar-ali-khan","tag-imran-khan","tag-noreen-niazi","tag-pakistan","tag-politics","tag-pti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23107","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=23107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23108,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23107\/revisions\/23108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}