{"id":2844,"date":"2021-09-28T13:14:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T13:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=2844"},"modified":"2021-09-28T13:15:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T13:15:22","slug":"ppp-leader-veteran-journalist-wajid-shamsul-hasan-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/ppp-leader-veteran-journalist-wajid-shamsul-hasan-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"PPP leader, veteran journalist Wajid Shamsul Hasan passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Leader of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and veteran politician Wajid Shamsul Hasan passed away on Tuesday, according to the party&#8217;s senior leader Sherry Rehman.<br \/>\nIn a tweet, Rehman posted a condolence message for Hasan, praising him for his &#8220;lifetime of devotion to democracy, human rights, free press and the PPP&#8221;.<br \/>\n&#8220;What a loss! Heartfelt condolences to his family and the broader civil society community he was deeply involved with,&#8221; she tweeted.<br \/>\nWajid Shamsul Hasan was a veteran journalist, who had been associated with the profession for over 40 years. He was also a close aide of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. and had served as Pakistan&#8217;s high commissioner to the UK during the PPP&#8217;s tenure.<br \/>\nHasan was suffering from an ailment over the past two years and had been seeking treatment for it over the past six weeks.<br \/>\nThe late PPP leader&#8217;s family said details of his funeral will be revealed shortly.<br \/>\n<em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/ppp-can-topple-the-new-government-bilawal-bhutto.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PPP can topple the new government: Bilawal Bhutto<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/sherryrehman\/status\/1442763899007238144?s=20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Leader of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and veteran politician Wajid Shamsul Hasan passed away on Tuesday, according to the party&#8217;s senior leader Sherry Rehman. In a tweet, Rehman posted a condolence message for Hasan, praising him for his &#8220;lifetime of devotion to democracy, human rights, free press and the PPP&#8221;. &#8220;What a loss! Heartfelt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[1229,410,1201,1228,855,246],"class_list":["post-2844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-benazir-bhutto","tag-bilawal-bhutto","tag-pakistan-peoples-party","tag-sherry-rehman","tag-uk","tag-ppp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}