{"id":17232,"date":"2022-03-14T09:13:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T09:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/?p=17232"},"modified":"2022-03-14T09:13:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T09:13:14","slug":"didnt-enter-politics-to-keep-a-lid-on-potato-prices-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/2022\/03\/14\/didnt-enter-politics-to-keep-a-lid-on-potato-prices-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Didn\u2019t enter politics to keep a lid on potato prices: PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<div class=\"mainstorycontent-parent\">\n<div class=\"storypage-main-section2\">\n<div class=\"storypage-rightside\">\n<hr \/>\n<p><span class=\"story-text\"><strong class=\"location-names\">HAFIZABAD:<\/strong><\/span>Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday maintained that his main objective of joining politics 25 years ago was not to check the prices of \u201cpotatoes and tomatoes\u201d but to make Pakistani people a great nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did not need to come into politics because I had achieved everything in my life. I entered politics only for the future of the [Pakistani] youth,\u201d he said while delivering a hard-hitting speech to a political gathering in Hafizabad.<\/p>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/appcsocialmedia\/status\/1502976943486025735\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=etribune&amp;dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NrZWxldG9uX2xvYWRpbmdfMTMzOTgiOnsiYnVja2V0IjoiY3RhIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19zcGFjZV9jYXJkIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9mZiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9fQ%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1502976943486025735&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Ftribune.com.pk%2Fstory%2F2347766%2Fdidnt-enter-politics-to-keep-a-lid-on-potato-prices-pm&amp;sessionId=bb9ed9e3076a071921b9cd38e0982c69c3c96a74&amp;siteScreenName=etribune&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2582c61%3A1645036219416&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1502976943486025735\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The premier further said it was the responsibility of the \u201cState\u201d and judiciary to stop the &#8220;corrupt and convicted&#8221; politicians, who he claimed were trying to topple his government through horse-trading.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAFIZABAD:Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday maintained that his main objective of joining politics 25 years ago was not to check the prices of \u201cpotatoes and tomatoes\u201d but to make Pakistani people a great nation. \u201cI did not need to come into politics because I had achieved everything in my life. I entered politics only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pakistan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17234,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17232\/revisions\/17234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}