{"id":2640,"date":"2025-09-19T14:14:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=2640"},"modified":"2025-09-19T14:14:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:14:50","slug":"emphasised-shared-history-congs-pitroda-clarifies-pakistan-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=2640","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Emphasised shared history&#8217;: Cong&#8217;s Pitroda clarifies &#8216;Pakistan&#8217; remark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Pitroda, Indian Overseas Congress chief, clarified his \u201cat home\u201d remarks about Pakistan, emphasizing shared history and people-to-people bonds, not terrorism endorsement. His earlier statement sparked controversy, drawing sharp criticism from BJP leaders who labeled him \u201cPakistan\u2019s favourite\u201d after the Pahalgam terror attack.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Pitroda, Indian Overseas Congress chief, clarified his \u201cat home\u201d remarks about Pakistan, emphasizing shared history and people-to-people bonds, not terrorism endorsement. His earlier statement sparked controversy, drawing sharp criticism <a href=\"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=2640\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}