{"id":65794,"date":"2024-07-22T11:00:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T02:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/22\/i-fear-they-will-kill-me-for-talking-the-pakistani-poet-abducted-for-his-activism"},"modified":"2024-07-22T11:00:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T02:00:21","slug":"i-fear-they-will-kill-me-for-talking-the-pakistani-poet-abducted-for-his-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65794","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I fear they will kill me for talking\u2019: The Pakistani poet abducted for his activism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmad Farhad\u2019s abduction sent ripples across Pakistan. After being released on bail, he insists on telling his story<\/p>\n<p>It was late at night in Islamabad and Ahmad Farhad was returning from a quick trip to the shops when someone walked up behind him. \u201cDon\u2019t be scared, don\u2019t scream and come with us,\u201d the figure, dressed in civilian clothes, whispered discreetly into his ear.<\/p>\n<p>Still clutching bread, eggs and jam intended for the next morning\u2019s breakfast, Farhad went to the car without a sound. With a sinking feeling the poet recognised the vehicle, with its blacked-out windows, as one known to be used by shadowy military agencies in Pakistan for abductions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/22\/i-fear-they-will-kill-me-for-talking-the-pakistani-poet-abducted-for-his-activism\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmad Farhad\u2019s abduction sent ripples across Pakistan. After being released on bail, he insists on telling his storyIt was late at night in Islamabad and Ahmad Farhad was returning from a quick trip to the shops when someone walked up behind him. \u201cDon\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3727,"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":[53,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","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\/65794","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\/3727"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65795,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65794\/revisions\/65795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}