{"id":24035,"date":"2020-10-21T13:00:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T04:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/21\/pakistani-shias-live-in-terror-as-sectarian-violence-increases"},"modified":"2020-10-21T13:00:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T04:00:25","slug":"pakistani-shias-live-in-terror-as-sectarian-violence-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24035","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani Shias live in terror as sectarian violence increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunni majority is using blasphemy laws to target and murder those they call \u2018heretics\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Syed Kareem* has been in hiding for weeks. He fears if he is seen on the streets of Karachi, the Pakistan city he calls home, he will be a dead man walking.<\/p>\n<p>His ordeal began with a Facebook post in early September, where he condemned the killers of a Shia Muslim martyred centuries ago. Though Kareem had meant it as a post of religious devotion, it caught the attention of an extremist Sunni Muslim group, who called him a traitor to Muslims.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/21\/pakistani-shias-live-in-terror-as-sectarian-violence-increases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunni majority is using blasphemy laws to target and murder those they call \u2018heretics\u2019Syed Kareem* has been in hiding for weeks. He fears if he is seen on the streets of Karachi, the Pakistan city he calls home, he will be a dead man walking.His or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1640,"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":[359,447,60,80,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imran-khan","category-islam","category-pakistan","category-protest","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/24035","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\/1640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24036,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24035\/revisions\/24036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}