{"id":195871,"date":"2025-04-11T17:35:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T15:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/africa-nigeria-regional-power-pillar-of-stability-in-africa-says-pakistani-military-chief\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T17:35:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T15:35:34","slug":"africa-nigeria-regional-power-pillar-of-stability-in-africa-says-pakistani-military-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/africa-nigeria-regional-power-pillar-of-stability-in-africa-says-pakistani-military-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Nigeria Regional Power, Pillar of Stability in Africa, Says Pakistani Military Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Gen. Sahir Mirza, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, Islamic Republic of Pakistan, has described Nigeria as a regional power and a pillar of stability on the African continent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Mirza made the remarks during a courtesy visit to the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar, at the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) headquarters in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">This is contained in a statement by the Director, of Public Relations and Information, NAF, Air Commodore Ehimen Ejodame, on Friday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">He said&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504110303.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gen. Sahir Mirza, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, Islamic Republic of Pakistan, has described Nigeria as a regional power and a pillar of stability on the African continent. Mirza made the remarks during a courtesy visit to the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar, at the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":195872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,6510,3318,257,4687,393,25945,10462,7047,4268,254,9185],"class_list":["post-195871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chief","tag-military","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-pakistani","tag-pillar","tag-power","tag-regional","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stability"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}