{"id":252097,"date":"2026-04-10T11:06:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=252097"},"modified":"2026-04-10T11:45:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:45:20","slug":"pakistans-defense-ministers-post-criticizing-israel-deleted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/252097\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s defense minister\u2019s post criticizing Israel deleted"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Pakistan&rsquo;s defense minister has deleted a social media post criticizing Israel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/liveblog\/2026\/4\/10\/iran-war-live-israeli-attacks-on-lebanon-threaten-us-iran-ceasefire-talks?update=4479367\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Al Jazeera<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>A social media post by Pakistan&rsquo;s Defense Minister, Khawaja Asif, in which he reportedly called Israel a &ldquo;curse for humanity&rdquo;, appears to have been deleted.<\/p>\n<p>It follows backlash from Israel, with the office of the Israeli prime minister calling the minister&rsquo;s remark &ldquo;outrageous.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan&rsquo;s defense minister has deleted a social media post criticizing Israel, Al Jazeera reports. A social media post by Pakistan&rsquo;s Defense Minister, Khawaja Asif, in which he reportedly called Israel a &ldquo;curse for humanity&rdquo;, appears to have been deleted. It follows backlash from Israel, with the office of the Israeli prime minister calling the minister&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":252068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252098,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252097\/revisions\/252098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}