{"id":21314,"date":"2020-08-03T21:20:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T12:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/03\/killing-pakistani-anti-corruption-journalist-protests-anwar-jan"},"modified":"2020-08-03T21:20:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T12:20:37","slug":"killing-of-pakistani-anti-corruption-journalist-sparks-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21314","title":{"rendered":"Killing of Pakistani anti-corruption journalist sparks protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anwar Jan shot dead in home town of Barkhan in Balochistan province<\/p>\n<p>The murder of a reporter known for exposing corruption has set off a wave of protests across Pakistan\u2019s western Balochistan province, one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist.<\/p>\n<p>Anwar Jan was shot dead by two gunmen on the evening of 23 July as he drove his motorbike home in the town of Barkhan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/03\/killing-pakistani-anti-corruption-journalist-protests-anwar-jan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anwar Jan shot dead in home town of Barkhan in Balochistan provinceThe murder of a reporter known for exposing corruption has set off a wave of protests across Pakistan\u2019s western Balochistan province, one of the most dangerous places in the world to be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1481,"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-21314","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\/21314","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\/1481"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21315,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21314\/revisions\/21315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}