{"id":55953,"date":"2023-06-14T01:19:55","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T16:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/13\/pakistan-media-decry-de-facto-ban-on-giving-airtime-to-imran-khan"},"modified":"2023-06-14T01:19:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T16:19:55","slug":"pakistan-media-decry-de-facto-ban-on-giving-airtime-to-imran-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55953","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan media decry de facto ban on giving airtime to Imran Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Journalists say directive on hate speech issued by regulator indirectly affects coverage of former PM<\/p>\n<p>Broadcast journalists in Pakistan have decried a de facto ban on mentioning Imran Khan by name or showing his image after a series of directives issued by the country\u2019s media regulator.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s parliament ousted Khan from parliament in April last year. Since then he has been making nearly daily headlines with fiery speeches and tweets directed at the government and army.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/13\/pakistan-media-decry-de-facto-ban-on-giving-airtime-to-imran-khan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalists say directive on hate speech issued by regulator indirectly affects coverage of former PMBroadcast journalists in Pakistan have decried a de facto ban on mentioning Imran Khan by name or showing his image after a series of directives issued&#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":[359,238,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imran-khan","category-media","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\/55953","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=55953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55954,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55953\/revisions\/55954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}