{"id":43493,"date":"2018-01-11T16:27:54","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T11:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=43493"},"modified":"2018-01-11T16:27:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T11:27:54","slug":"funeral-prayers-of-slain-protesters-offered-in-kasur-amid-grief-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=43493","title":{"rendered":"Funeral prayers of slain protesters offered in Kasur amid grief, anger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KASUR\u00a0Jan 11 (TNS):<\/strong>\u00a0Funeral prayers of two slain protesters, killed in police action, were offered on Thursday amid presence of a mammoth crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Tehreek-e-Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah (TLYRA) Chief, Khadim Hussain Rizvi led the funeral prayers of slain protesters, Shoaib and Mohammad Ali, at College Ground in Kasur.<\/p>\n<p>The prayers were attended by a large number of people including traders, social activists, and political leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Protests in the Kasur were soon erupted after Zainab\u2019s body recovered from a garbage heap, claiming two lives on Wednesday after police resorted to firing in a bid to stop the protesters from surrounding the District Police Officer (DPO) and District Coordination Officer (DCO) offices.<\/p>\n<p>The post-mortem report of slain protesters is expected to be released later today.<\/p>\n<p>Two FIRs have been registered against as many as 16 \u2018unidentified\u2019 policemen on the complaints of the slain protesters\u2019 relatives. The FIRs have been registered under murder charges.<\/p>\n<p>To diffuse mounting pressure, authorities also claimed to have arrested two policemen for resorting to firing to disperse the protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif has announced Rs3 million as a compensation amount for heirs of the slain protesters.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, he deplored the firing incident and termed police action unwarranted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KASUR\u00a0Jan 11 (TNS):\u00a0Funeral prayers of two slain protesters, killed in police action, were offered on Thursday amid presence of a mammoth crowd. Tehreek-e-Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah (TLYRA) Chief, Khadim Hussain Rizvi led the funeral prayers of slain protesters, Shoaib and Mohammad Ali, at College Ground in Kasur. The prayers were attended by a large number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[713,23],"tags":[765,589],"class_list":["post-43493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kasur","category-national","tag-kasur","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43493","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=43493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43495,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43493\/revisions\/43495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}