{"id":52541,"date":"2023-02-12T17:38:32","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T08:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/12\/mob-storms-pakistan-police-station-and-lynches-man-accused-of-blasphemy"},"modified":"2023-02-12T17:38:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T08:38:32","slug":"mob-storms-pakistan-police-station-and-lynches-man-accused-of-blasphemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52541","title":{"rendered":"Mob storms Pakistan police station and lynches man accused of blasphemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Killing is latest in string of mob attacks against people accused of blasphemy in Muslim-majority south Asian country<\/p>\n<p>A mob in eastern Pakistan stormed a police station on Saturday and snatched a Muslim man accused of blasphemy from police custody and lynched him, in the latest religion-linked killing in the conservative Islamic country.<\/p>\n<p>Muhammad Waris, in his mid-30s, was in police custody in Nankana Sahib in Punjab province, 80km (50 miles) from Lahore, for desecrating pages of the Qur\u2019an.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/12\/mob-storms-pakistan-police-station-and-lynches-man-accused-of-blasphemy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Killing is latest in string of mob attacks against people accused of blasphemy in Muslim-majority south Asian countryA mob in eastern Pakistan stormed a police station on Saturday and snatched a Muslim man accused of blasphemy from police custody and l&#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":[447,60,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","category-pakistan","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52541","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=52541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52547,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52541\/revisions\/52547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}