{"id":62364,"date":"2025-01-13T19:05:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T14:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=62364"},"modified":"2025-01-13T19:05:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T14:05:46","slug":"lahore-court-takes-action-against-khawaja-asif-over-ghaznavi-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/lahore-court-takes-action-against-khawaja-asif-over-ghaznavi-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Lahore court takes action against Khawaja Asif over Ghaznavi remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: A petition has been filed in a court in the Punjab capital to register a case against Defence Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pti-agrees-to-constitutional-amendments-says-khawaja-asif\/\">Khawaja Asif<\/a> over controversial remarks against a historical figure, Mahmud Ghaznavi.<\/p>\n<p>The petitioner maintained that the minister tried to defame Ghaznavi and demanded action against him.<\/p>\n<p>On which the court sought a report from the Federal Investigation Agency <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/fia-arrests-accused-behind-maryam-nawazs-deepfake-video\/\">(FIA)<\/a> in this regard and issued a schedule for hearing later this month.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy began when Khawaja Asif described Mahmud of Ghaznavi, who is famous in Pakistan\u2019s historical narrative, as \u201ca mere looter\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He made these remarks during a television interview that stunned many in the country where textbooks celebrate the rain of Mahmud Ghazni on the Somnath temple in India in 1026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: A petition has been filed in a court in the Punjab capital to register a case against Defence Minister Khawaja Asif over controversial remarks against a historical figure, Mahmud Ghaznavi. The petitioner maintained that the minister tried to defame Ghaznavi and demanded action against him. On which the court sought a report from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":27565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3007,296],"class_list":["post-62364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-khawaja-asif","tag-fia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62364","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=62364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62365,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62364\/revisions\/62365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}