{"id":102968,"date":"2022-02-23T16:30:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T11:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=102968"},"modified":"2022-02-23T16:30:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T11:30:04","slug":"misuse-of-criminal-law-can-be-debated-instead-of-opposition-fawad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=102968","title":{"rendered":"Misuse of criminal law can be debated instead of opposition: Fawad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Feb 23 (TNS): Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain Wednesday said effective prevention of misuse of the criminal law could be debated instead of<br \/>\nopposing its existence.<\/p>\n<p>Fawad, in a tweet said, the defamation was dealt under the civil law but false accusation and ridiculing were the well-defined Islamic laws with strict recommended penalties for the violators.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the Surah Al-Nissa (The Women Chapter) of the Holy Qura\u2019an, the minister said leveling false accusation against women had a penalty and there was no justification to say the criminal law was inappropriate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Feb 23 (TNS): Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain Wednesday said effective prevention of misuse of the criminal law could be debated instead of opposing its existence. Fawad, in a tweet said, the defamation was dealt under the civil law but false accusation and ridiculing were the well-defined Islamic laws with strict [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102969,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102968\/revisions\/102969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/99113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}