{"id":32202,"date":"2017-11-21T12:35:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T07:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=32202"},"modified":"2017-11-21T12:35:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T07:35:55","slug":"sc-takes-sou-moto-notice-of-islamabad-siege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=32202","title":{"rendered":"SC takes sou moto notice of Islamabad siege"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad, Nov. 21 (TNS):<\/strong>\u00a0Amid suffering of common man, the Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday took notice of the sit-in at Faizabad Interchange that has paralysed twin cities for over almost two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The court was alerted to the gravity when a lawyer told Justice Mushir Alam that he could not prepare for the case because the capital had been held captive by the religious groups.<\/p>\n<p>Taking notice of the issue, SC has summoned Inspector General Punjab, Inspector General Islamabad and Attorney General of Pakistan on Thursday, November 23.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32103\" src=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Faiz-abad-Protest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Faiz-abad-Protest.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Faiz-abad-Protest-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Justice Isa also directed Secretary Defence and Secretary Interior to file a detailed report on the matter. He also directed Secretary Defence and Secretary Interior to file a detailed report on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters have been demanding resignation of Federal Minister for Law Zahid Hamid for allegedly altering the declaration of lawmakers with regard to Finality of the Prophethood \u2013 a change which the government called a \u2018clerical error\u2019 and has already reversed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30445\" src=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/protest3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/protest3.jpg 700w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/protest3-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/protest3-696x398.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A meeting of religious scholars, organised by the government on Monday, announced its own committee to hold talks with the participants of the Islamabad sit-in as negotiations between the government and protest leaders remained inconclusive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Nov. 21 (TNS):\u00a0Amid suffering of common man, the Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday took notice of the sit-in at Faizabad Interchange that has paralysed twin cities for over almost two weeks. The court was alerted to the gravity when a lawyer told Justice Mushir Alam that he could not prepare for the case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-32202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-islamabad","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32202","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=32202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32203,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32202\/revisions\/32203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}