{"id":30381,"date":"2021-03-30T21:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/30\/pakistani-government-accused-of-sabotaging-rights-watchdog"},"modified":"2021-03-30T21:00:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T12:00:33","slug":"pakistani-government-accused-of-sabotaging-rights-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30381","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani government accused of &#8216;sabotaging&#8217; rights watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad high court orders government to fill vacant post at head of National Commission for Human Rights<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, and his government have been accused of trying to \u201csabotage\u201d the country\u2019s independent human rights watchdog to prevent accountability for mounting abuses and oppression.<\/p>\n<p>Legislators, activists and lawyers told the Guardian that Khan\u2019s government \u201cpunished\u201d and immobilised Pakistan\u2019s National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) over reports that it had produced into human rights abuses and torture carried out by the military, which plays a powerful role in running the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/30\/pakistani-government-accused-of-sabotaging-rights-watchdog\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad high court orders government to fill vacant post at head of National Commission for Human RightsThe prime minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, and his government have been accused of trying to \u201csabotage\u201d the country\u2019s independent human rights wa&#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":[53,359,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","category-imran-khan","category-pakistan","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\/30381","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=30381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30382,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30381\/revisions\/30382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}