{"id":686999,"date":"2026-01-10T15:38:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T15:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/686999\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T15:38:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T15:38:24","slug":"pakistan-eyes-defense-exports-to-cut-reliance-on-western-financing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/686999\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan eyes defense exports to cut reliance on Western financing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nasir Kazmi<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nPress TV, Islamabad<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As Pakistan looks to break its long-standing reliance on Western financial institutions, including the International Monetary Fund, a global lender, defense exports are emerging as a strategic alternative. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From growing interest in Pakistani fighter jets to expanding defense diplomacy, officials say military hardware could help reshape the country\u2019s economic direction.<\/p>\n<p>Press TV\u2019s website can also be accessed at the following alternate addresses:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.presstv.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nasir Kazmi&#13; Press TV, Islamabad As Pakistan looks to break its long-standing reliance on Western financial institutions, including&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,1700,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-686999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115871554315648975","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}