{"id":39392,"date":"2021-12-01T21:44:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T12:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/01\/uproar-in-pakistan-over-claim-of-meddling-in-nawaz-sharif-case"},"modified":"2021-12-01T21:44:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T12:44:41","slug":"uproar-in-pakistan-over-claim-of-meddling-in-nawaz-sharif-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39392","title":{"rendered":"Uproar in Pakistan over claim of meddling in Nawaz Sharif case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former chief justice allegedly heard on tape admitting pressure was brought to bear in case against ex-PM<\/p>\n<p>The independence of Pakistan\u2019s judiciary has been called into question after the emergence of an audio recording in which a former chief justice is allegedly heard admitting that pressure was brought to bear in a case against the ex-prime minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/nawaz-sharif\">Nawaz Sharif<\/a> and his daughter to aid the rise of the current premier, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/imran-khan\">Imran Khan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The recording, which has not been independently verified by the Guardian, has triggered an uproar in Pakistan and once again drawn scrutiny towards the country\u2019s courts, which have long been tainted by accusations of meddling by the military.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/01\/uproar-in-pakistan-over-claim-of-meddling-in-nawaz-sharif-case\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former chief justice allegedly heard on tape admitting pressure was brought to bear in case against ex-PMThe independence of Pakistan\u2019s judiciary has been called into question after the emergence of an audio recording in which a former chief justice is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"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":[359,813,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imran-khan","category-nawaz-sharif","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\/39392","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\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39399,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39392\/revisions\/39399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}