{"id":19478,"date":"2020-06-19T01:08:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T16:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/18\/imran-farooq-three-men-sentenced-for-of-pakistan-exile-in-london"},"modified":"2020-06-19T01:08:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T16:08:59","slug":"imran-farooq-several-convicted-over-murder-of-pakistani-exile-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19478","title":{"rendered":"Imran Farooq: several convicted over murder of Pakistani exile in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani court gives MQM party members life sentences for stabbing political rival in 2010<\/p>\n<p>A Pakistani court has convicted several men over the murder of a prominent exiled politician in north London 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Imran Farooq, 50, was repeatedly stabbed and bludgeoned with a house brick in Edgware as he returned home from work on 16 September 2010. The killing of Farooq, a founding member of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), sparked rioting in his native city of Karachi.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/18\/imran-farooq-three-men-sentenced-for-of-pakistan-exile-in-london\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani court gives MQM party members life sentences for stabbing political rival in 2010A Pakistani court has convicted several men over the murder of a prominent exiled politician in north London 10 years ago.Dr Imran Farooq, 50, was repeatedly sta&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"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":[215,60,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-london","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","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\/19478","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\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19479,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19478\/revisions\/19479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}