{"id":34692,"date":"2021-08-02T14:30:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T05:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/aug\/02\/pakistan-reckons-with-its-gender-terrorism-epidemic-after-of-noor-mukadam"},"modified":"2021-08-02T14:30:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T05:30:19","slug":"pakistan-reckons-with-its-gender-terrorism-epidemic-after-murder-of-noor-mukadam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34692","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan reckons with its \u2018gender terrorism epidemic\u2019 after murder of Noor Mukadam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victims\u2019s family speak of their heartbreak as brutal killing sparks national debate on lack of progress to end violence against women<\/p>\n<p>The family of a 27-year-old woman who was allegedly tortured and beheaded by the son of a business tycoon have spoken of their devastation in a case that has pushed Pakistan to examine what has been called a \u201cgender terrorism epidemic\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Zahir Zakir Jaffer was arrested on suspicion of the pre-meditated murder of Noor Mukadam, the youngest daughter of a former Pakistani diplomat, after allegedly holding her captive for three days at his apartment in an upmarket area of Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/aug\/02\/pakistan-reckons-with-its-gender-terrorism-epidemic-after-of-noor-mukadam\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victims\u2019s family speak of their heartbreak as brutal killing sparks national debate on lack of progress to end violence against womenThe family of a 27-year-old woman who was allegedly tortured and beheaded by the son of a business tycoon have spoken o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1403,"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":[934,59,60,440,61,281,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic-violence","category-global-development","category-pakistan","category-sexual-violence","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","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\/34692","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\/1403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34693,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34692\/revisions\/34693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}