{"id":71686,"date":"2025-05-10T09:48:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T00:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/10\/who-is-gen-asim-munir-army-chief-leading-pakistan-military-over-india-crisis"},"modified":"2025-05-10T09:48:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T00:48:59","slug":"who-is-gen-asim-munir-the-army-chief-leading-pakistans-military-amid-india-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71686","title":{"rendered":"Who is Gen Asim Munir, the army chief leading Pakistan\u2019s military amid India crisis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Military chief once fell foul of Imran Khan, but since taking the top spot has been quietly amassing power over the government  and supreme court<\/p>\n<p>In the 77 years since Pakistan was established, its affairs and politics have long been governed by the whims of powerful military generals.<\/p>\n<p>Yet even now that the country is out of the clutches of martial law, it is still widely understood that the most powerful man in Pakistan is not the head of the government but instead the chief of the army.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/10\/who-is-gen-asim-munir-army-chief-leading-pakistan-military-over-india-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military chief once fell foul of Imran Khan, but since taking the top spot has been quietly amassing power over the government  and supreme courtIn the 77 years since Pakistan was established, its affairs and politics have long been governed by the whi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3046,"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":[62,432,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-kashmir","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\/71686","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\/3046"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71687,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71686\/revisions\/71687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}