{"id":103829,"date":"2026-10-03T09:53:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T04:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=103829"},"modified":"2026-10-03T09:53:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T04:53:51","slug":"pakistan-to-deepen-ties-with-russia-awais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/pakistan-to-deepen-ties-with-russia-awais\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan to deepen ties with Russia: Awais"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD<br \/>\nFederal Minister for Energy Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari has said Pakistan has significant potential and a strong appetite to expand cooperation with Russia in key sectors, including energy, agriculture, food security, tourism and information technology, while stressing that closer bilateral engagement is important for regional peace, security and economic growth. Leghari said Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had consistently availed opportunities to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on international platforms, reflecting the leaderships\u2019 interest in strengthening bilateral relations.<br \/>\nHe said the Pakistan-Russia Intergovernmental Commission, which he co-chairs with Russian Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilev, provided an important institutional mechanism for advancing cooperation across a broad range of areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD Federal Minister for Energy Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari has said Pakistan has significant potential and a strong appetite to expand cooperation with Russia in key sectors, including energy, agriculture, food security, tourism and information technology, while stressing that closer bilateral engagement is important for regional peace, security and economic growth. Leghari said Prime Minister &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":96897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103850,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103829\/revisions\/103850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}