{"id":571073,"date":"2023-04-21T10:04:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T04:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=571073"},"modified":"2023-04-21T11:04:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T05:34:22","slug":"pakistan-makes-its-first-purchase-of-discounted-russian-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pakistan-makes-its-first-purchase-of-discounted-russian-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan makes its first purchase of discounted Russian oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan has placed its first order for discounted Russian crude oil under a deal struck between Islamabad and Moscow, the country&#8217;s petroleum minister said, with one cargo to dock at the port of Karachi in May.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s purchase gives Russia a new outlet, adding to Moscow&#8217;s growing sales to India and China, as it redirects oil from western markets because of the Ukraine conflict.<\/p>\n<p>As a long-standing Western ally and the arch-rival of neighbouring India, which historically is closer to Moscow, analysts say the crude deal would have been difficult for Pakistan to accept, but its financing needs are great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan has placed its first order for discounted Russian crude oil under a deal struck between Islamabad and Moscow, the country&#8217;s petroleum minister said, with one cargo to dock at the port of Karachi in May. Pakistan&#8217;s purchase gives Russia a new outlet, adding to Moscow&#8217;s growing sales to India and China, as it redirects oil from western markets because of the Ukraine conflict. As a long-standing Western ally and the arch-rival of neighbouring India, which historically is closer to Moscow, analysts say the crude deal would have been difficult for Pakistan to accept, but its financing needs are great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}