{"id":42433,"date":"2022-03-15T02:00:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T17:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/14\/hashir-faruqi-obituary"},"modified":"2022-03-15T02:00:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T17:00:29","slug":"hashir-faruqi-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42433","title":{"rendered":"Hashir Faruqi obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Hashir Faruqi, who has died aged 92, was a scientist of Pakistani heritage who found his vocation as a journalist and community activist after settling in London in the early 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>He launched the bi-monthly Impact International magazine in 1971 from a modest office in north London, and ran it on a shoestring budget for 35 years, providing English-reading Muslims with news and analysis from an independent, post-colonial perspective. At its peak it had 28,000 subscribers in 85 countries and 80,000 readers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/14\/hashir-faruqi-obituary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Hashir Faruqi, who has died aged 92, was a scientist of Pakistani heritage who found his vocation as a journalist and community activist after settling in London in the early 1960s.He launched the bi-monthly Impact International magazine in 1&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2957,"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":[447,238,60,371],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","category-media","category-pakistan","category-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42433","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\/2957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42434,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42433\/revisions\/42434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}