{"id":944619,"date":"2025-07-08T08:21:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T02:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=944619"},"modified":"2025-07-08T09:14:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T03:44:40","slug":"is-pakistan-pulling-an-end-run-around-india-in-washington-with-its-cryptocurrency-hype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/08\/is-pakistan-pulling-an-end-run-around-india-in-washington-with-its-cryptocurrency-hype\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Pakistan pulling an end-run around India in Washington with its cryptocurrency hype?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who is the most important man in Pakistan? Most people would immediately say Pakistan Army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir. But he might have competition from a fast-rising crypto evangelist: Bilal Bin Saqib. <\/p>\n<p>Saqib isn\u2019t a household name yet but give him a little time. The UK-based entrepreneur is the Pakistan prime minister\u2019s advisor on cryptocurrency and blockchain. He\u2019s been globetrotting, making high-level connections and pitching Pakistan as a promising destination for anyone hoping to make a quick fortune in the digital finance world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is the most important man in Pakistan? Most people would immediately say Pakistan Army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir. But he might have competition from a fast-rising crypto evangelist: Bilal Bin Saqib. Saqib isn\u2019t a household name yet but give him a little time. The UK-based entrepreneur is the Pakistan prime minister\u2019s advisor on cryptocurrency and blockchain. He\u2019s been globetrotting, making high-level connections and pitching Pakistan as a promising destination for anyone hoping to make a quick fortune in the digital finance world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}