{"id":24916,"date":"2020-11-19T16:15:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T07:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/nov\/19\/fishermen-fear-pakistan-new-city-for-the-elite-will-end-their-way-of-life"},"modified":"2020-11-19T16:15:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T07:15:05","slug":"fishermen-fear-pakistans-new-city-for-the-elite-will-end-their-way-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24916","title":{"rendered":"Fishermen fear Pakistan\u2019s new \u2018city for the elite\u2019 will end their way of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A proposed island megacity off Karachi puts precious wetlands \u2013 and the millions of jobs that depend on them \u2013 at risk<\/p>\n<p>On the island of Bundal, off Pakistan\u2019s Arabian Sea coast, people gather in their thousands, as they have done for decades, to honour their saint, Baba Yousaf Shah.<\/p>\n<p>As the sun shines on the festivities around the shrine, colourful flags flutter energetically as the air fills with the vibrant clamour of music, singing and feasting.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/nov\/19\/fishermen-fear-pakistan-new-city-for-the-elite-will-end-their-way-of-life\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A proposed island megacity off Karachi puts precious wetlands \u2013 and the millions of jobs that depend on them \u2013 at riskOn the island of Bundal, off Pakistan\u2019s Arabian Sea coast, people gather in their thousands, as they have done for decades, to honour &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1705,"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":[847,731,313,59,60,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-fishing-industry","category-flooding","category-global-development","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24916","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\/1705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24917,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24916\/revisions\/24917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}