{"id":67965,"date":"2024-11-28T00:19:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T15:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/27\/pakistan-army-and-police-accused-of-firing-on-imran-khan-supporters"},"modified":"2024-11-28T00:19:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T15:19:05","slug":"pakistan-army-and-police-accused-of-firing-on-imran-khan-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67965","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan army and police accused of firing on Imran Khan supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple protesters said to have been killed and hundreds injured in Islamabad amid calls for Khan\u2019s release from jail<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s army and police have been accused of firing on civilians, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries to hundreds of protesters who had stormed Islamabad on Tuesday to demand the release of the former prime minister Imran Khan from prison.<\/p>\n<p>As tens of thousands of Khan\u2019s supporters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/26\/pakistan-violence-death-toll-imran-khan-supporters-clash\">stormed the capital<\/a> on Tuesday in defiance of government orders, the army and paramilitary forces were deployed in huge numbers and issued with shoot-to-kill orders to try to stop the crowds reaching the heart of Islamabad\u2019s sensitive Red Zone, which houses the parliament, supreme court and prime minister\u2019s residence.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/27\/pakistan-army-and-police-accused-of-firing-on-imran-khan-supporters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple protesters said to have been killed and hundreds injured in Islamabad amid calls for Khan\u2019s release from jailPakistan\u2019s army and police have been accused of firing on civilians, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries to hundreds of proteste&#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":[359,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imran-khan","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\/67965","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=67965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67966,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67965\/revisions\/67966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}