{"id":20801,"date":"2020-07-22T03:19:50","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T18:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/21\/pakistani-journalist-known-for-criticising-military-kidnapped-in-islamabad"},"modified":"2020-07-22T07:28:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T22:28:26","slug":"pakistani-journalist-known-for-criticising-military-kidnapped-in-islamabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20801","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani journalist and army critic released after being kidnapped in Islamabad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matiullah Jan, an outspoken critic of Pakistan\u2019s institutions, was seized by heavily armed men before being let go<\/p>\n<p>A prominent Pakistani journalist known for his hard-hitting criticism of the country\u2019s military and other institutions has been released after he was kidnapped by heavily armed men in Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>At least 10 men in three vehicles intercepted Matiullah Jan on Tuesday soon after he arrived to pick up his wife from a school where she was teaching, according to Jan\u2019s brother Shahid Akbar Abbasi. He said the kidnapping occurred at around 11am local time.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/21\/pakistani-journalist-known-for-criticising-military-kidnapped-in-islamabad\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matiullah Jan, an outspoken critic of Pakistan\u2019s institutions, was seized by heavily armed men before being let goA prominent Pakistani journalist known for his hard-hitting criticism of the country\u2019s military and other institutions has been released a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1460,"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":[669,238,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalist-safety","category-media","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20801","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\/1460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20801"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20819,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20801\/revisions\/20819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}