{"id":1339,"date":"2019-01-22T10:46:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T10:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eng.dailyausaf.com\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2019-01-22T10:46:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T10:46:16","slug":"opposition-in-senate-dismisses-sahiwal-jit-as-smokescreen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/opposition-in-senate-dismisses-sahiwal-jit-as-smokescreen\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition in Senate dismisses Sahiwal JIT as smokescreen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The opposition in the Senate on Monday rejected the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) over the Sahiwal tragedy as a mere smokescreen and called for swift action to punish all those responsible for the killings.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on an adjournment motion, the Senators observed that even if the victims were terrorists \u2014 as claimed by the Punjab government \u2014 they deserved the due process of law.<\/p>\n<p>They pointed out that the Constitution guarantees the right to live and the state is bound to protect lives, honour and property of its citizens.<\/p>\n<p>They voiced concern over the registration of an FIR against \u2018unknown\u2019 assailants and U-turns taken by the Punjab government functionaries who have initially claimed to have killed terrorists to recover \u2018abducted children\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The opposition in the Senate on Monday rejected the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) over the Sahiwal tragedy as a mere smokescreen and called for swift action to punish all those responsible for the killings. Speaking on an adjournment motion, the Senators observed that even if the victims were terrorists \u2014 as claimed by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}