{"id":32275,"date":"2017-11-21T17:23:21","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T12:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=32275"},"modified":"2017-11-21T17:23:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T12:23:21","slug":"raza-rabbani-says-state-seems-helpless-over-islamabad-siege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=32275","title":{"rendered":"Raza Rabbani says state seems \u2018helpless\u2019 over Islamabad siege"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad, Nov. 21 (TNS):<\/strong> Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani on Monday said that the capital has been under siege since last two weeks but no one in the government seems to care about masses being affected by the blockade.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OGy3IpbvAQk\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Addressing a ceremony here, Rabbani expressed displeasure at the state\u2019s helplessness in tackling the sit-in led by a religious group demanding the resignation of the law minister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere can only be politics if there is a state. Politics will go in the right direction if society takes a right path. But if warlords will control society, neither the state nor any institution will exist,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Nov. 21 (TNS): Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani on Monday said that the capital has been under siege since last two weeks but no one in the government seems to care about masses being affected by the blockade. Addressing a ceremony here, Rabbani expressed displeasure at the state\u2019s helplessness in tackling the sit-in led by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-32275","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\/32275","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=32275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32283,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32275\/revisions\/32283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}