{"id":2626,"date":"2014-12-08T06:31:03","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T11:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2626"},"modified":"2014-12-08T06:31:03","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T11:31:03","slug":"clashes-erupt-in-pakistan-shut-down-protest-central-south-asia-al-jazeera-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2626","title":{"rendered":"Clashes erupt in Pakistan &#8216;shut down&#8217; protest &#8211; Central &#038; South Asia &#8211; Al Jazeera English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/asia\/2014\/12\/clashes-erupt-pakistan-shut-down-protest-201412872954304894.html\">Clashes erupt in Pakistan &#8216;shut down&#8217; protest &#8211; Central &amp; South Asia &#8211; Al Jazeera English<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Police have clashed with hundreds of protesters from the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, who were attempting to shut down the eastern city of Faisalabad as part of its leader Imran Khan&#8217;s movement against the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>Police used water cannons, wooden batons and tear gas on Monday against protesters in several areas, including the central Millat Chowk area, local news television footage showed.<\/p>\n<p>The situation remains tense, as supporters of the PTI, also known as the Movement for Justice party, refuse to back down.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters conducted sit-ins at main intersections in the city, a major economic hub, and shouted slogans against the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clashes erupt in Pakistan &#8216;shut down&#8217; protest &#8211; Central &amp; South Asia &#8211; Al Jazeera English. Police have clashed with hundreds of protesters from the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, who were attempting to shut down the eastern city of Faisalabad as part of its leader Imran Khan&#8217;s movement against the federal government. Police used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[955,1748,1746,1745,657,1747],"class_list":["post-2626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-anti-government-protests","tag-faisalabad","tag-imran-khan","tag-pakistan","tag-protests","tag-pti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2627,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions\/2627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}