{"id":14288,"date":"2020-02-12T18:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T09:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/feb\/12\/the-cheating-wife-her-rich-lover-and-a-court-case-for-immoral-pakistan-tv-hit-meray-paas-tum-ho"},"modified":"2020-02-12T18:00:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T09:00:28","slug":"the-cheating-wife-her-rich-lover-and-a-court-case-for-immoral-pakistan-tv-hit-meray-paas-tum-ho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14288","title":{"rendered":"The cheating wife, her rich lover and a court case for &#8216;immoral&#8217; Pakistan TV hit Meray Paas Tum Ho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Creators of Meray Paas Tum Ho could be facing legal suit amid accusations the hugely popular show was \u2018misogynistic\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A court in Pakistan has <a href=\"https:\/\/images.dawn.com\/news\/1184542\">summoned<\/a> the creators of a wildly popular television series after a petition was filed demanding they apologise for portraying Pakistani women as \u201cgreedy, selfish and non-professional\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In the petition filed at the Sindh high court last month, lawyer Sana Saleem said the television series Meray Paas Tum Ho (I Have You) was \u201cridiculing a woman who makes the same decision as every other man in society\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/feb\/12\/the-cheating-wife-her-rich-lover-and-a-court-case-for-immoral-pakistan-tv-hit-meray-paas-tum-ho\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creators of Meray Paas Tum Ho could be facing legal suit amid accusations the hugely popular show was \u2018misogynistic\u2019A court in Pakistan has summoned the creators of a wildly popular television series after a petition was filed demanding they apologise &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":975,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,60,61,520,519,281,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-television","category-television-radio","category-women","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/975"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14289,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14288\/revisions\/14289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}