{"id":51913,"date":"2023-01-16T21:00:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/16\/prominent-pakistani-lawyer-abdul-latif-afridi-shot-dead-court-peshawar"},"modified":"2023-01-17T01:30:46","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T16:30:46","slug":"prominent-pakistani-lawyer-is-shot-dead-on-high-court-premises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51913","title":{"rendered":"Top lawyer shot dead by colleague at Pakistan high court, say police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abdul Latif Afridi was killed by a junior lawyer in Peshawar in what is believed to be a grudge attack<\/p>\n<p>A top lawyer has been murdered at a Pakistan high court by a colleague who shot him six times while dressed in full judicial robes, according to police and a witness.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Latif Afridi, former president of the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan, was lounging with co-workers in a break room at Peshawar high court when he was killed in an apparent grudge attack.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/16\/prominent-pakistani-lawyer-abdul-latif-afridi-shot-dead-court-peshawar\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abdul Latif Afridi was killed by a junior lawyer in Peshawar in what is believed to be a grudge attackA top lawyer has been murdered at a Pakistan high court by a colleague who shot him six times while dressed in full judicial robes, according to polic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3530,"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":[60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/51913","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\/3530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51922,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51913\/revisions\/51922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}