{"id":34927,"date":"2021-08-08T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/07\/dissident-pakistani-exiles-in-uk-on-hit-list"},"modified":"2021-08-08T05:00:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T20:00:01","slug":"dissident-pakistani-exiles-in-uk-on-hit-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34927","title":{"rendered":"Dissident Pakistani exiles in UK \u2018on hit list\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics of country\u2019s military told by Met police of plots against them as security forces fear there may be an attack in Britain<\/p>\n<p>Pakistani exiles living in London who have criticised the country\u2019s powerful military have been warned that their lives are in danger, raising fresh concern over authoritarian regimes targeting foreign dissidents in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>British security sources are understood to be concerned that Pakistan, a strong UK ally \u2013 particularly on intelligence issues \u2013 might be prepared to target individuals on British soil.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/07\/dissident-pakistani-exiles-in-uk-on-hit-list\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics of country\u2019s military told by Met police of plots against them as security forces fear there may be an attack in BritainPakistani exiles living in London who have criticised the country\u2019s powerful military have been warned that their lives are &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2369,"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":[559,53,60,80,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-human-rights","category-pakistan","category-protest","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","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\/34927","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\/2369"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34928,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34927\/revisions\/34928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}