{"id":226459,"date":"2026-01-10T08:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T08:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/226459\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T08:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T08:35:19","slug":"pakistan-eyes-defense-exports-to-cut-reliance-on-western-financing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/226459\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan eyes defense exports to cut reliance on Western financing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nasir Kazmi<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nPress TV, Islamabad<\/p>\n<p>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. <\/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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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":226460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-226459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}