{"id":40431,"date":"2022-01-07T22:20:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T13:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jan\/07\/first-female-judge-nominated-for-pakistans-supreme-court"},"modified":"2022-01-07T22:20:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T13:20:23","slug":"first-female-judge-nominated-for-pakistans-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40431","title":{"rendered":"First female judge nominated for Pakistan\u2019s supreme court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move to appoint Justice Ayesha Malik, who banned virginity tests for rape survivors, described as \u2018defining moment\u2019 for the country<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s top judicial commission has nominated a female judge to the supreme court for the first time in the country\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>The move to pave the way for Justice Ayesha Malik to join the court has been widely praised by lawyers and civil society activists as a defining moment in the struggle for gender equality in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jan\/07\/first-female-judge-nominated-for-pakistans-supreme-court\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move to appoint Justice Ayesha Malik, who banned virginity tests for rape survivors, described as \u2018defining moment\u2019 for the countryPakistan\u2019s top judicial commission has nominated a female judge to the supreme court for the first time in the country\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1153,"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":[59,86,78,60,61,281,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-law","category-life-and-style","category-pakistan","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\/40431","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\/1153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40432,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40431\/revisions\/40432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}