{"id":3610,"date":"2026-11-01T10:05:01","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T05:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3610"},"modified":"2026-11-01T10:05:01","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T05:05:01","slug":"zardari-shehbaz-felicitate-gilgit-baltistan-on-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3610","title":{"rendered":"Zardari, Shehbaz felicitate Gilgit-Baltistan on Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif have congratulated the people of Gilgit-Baltistan on their 79th Independence Day, paying tribute to those who fought against Dogra rule to secure the region\u2019s freedom.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In separate messages on Sunday, both leaders recalled the historic struggle 79 years ago, when the people of Gilgit-Baltistan overthrew Dogra rule, declared independence and subsequently sent a letter to Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah seeking accession to Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>President Zardari said the people of Gilgit-Baltistan had made valuable contributions to Pakistan\u2019s defence and development.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Shehbaz paid tribute to the determination, courage and sacrifices of the region\u2019s leaders and people in achieving freedom.<\/p>\n<p>He reaffirmed the federal government\u2019s commitment to extending full support to the Gilgit-Baltistan government in addressing economic challenges and introducing institutional and administrative reforms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif have congratulated the people of Gilgit-Baltistan on their 79th Independence Day, paying tribute to those who fought against Dogra rule to secure the region\u2019s freedom. In separate messages on Sunday, both leaders recalled the historic struggle 79 years ago, when the people of Gilgit-Baltistan overthrew Dogra rule, declared independence and subsequently sent a letter to Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah seeking accession to Pakistan. President Zardari said the people of Gilgit-Baltistan had made valuable contributions to Pakistan\u2019s defence and development. Prime Minister&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}