{"id":21008,"date":"2017-02-01T11:45:17","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T11:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=21008"},"modified":"2017-02-01T11:45:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T11:45:17","slug":"pakistan-fearing-us-visa-ban-cracks-militant-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/pakistan-fearing-us-visa-ban-cracks-militant-group.html","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan, fearing US visa ban, cracks down on militant group"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"Justify\">\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Pakistan, fearing US visa ban, cracks down on militant group<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>Pakistan, fearing US visa ban, cracks down on militant group:-<\/strong> The sudden house arrest of a high-profile Islamist cleric in Pakistan on Monday sparked peaceful protests Tuesday by his followers, who condemned it as a government effort to appease the Trump administration after it banned visitors and refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries over the weekend \u2014 and a top presidential aide hinted that Pakistan could be added to the list.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Supporters of Hafiz Saeed, the fiery leader of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa movement, contended that the move by Pakistani officials had also come at the behest of India, Pakistan\u2019s Hindu-led rival and neighbor. The group zealously opposes India\u2019s claim to the disputed Kashmir border region, and a previous militant group led by Saeed, Lashkar-e-Taiba, was blamed for the 2008 terrorist siege that killed 164 people in the Indian city of Mumbai.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">\u2018\u2018There was pressure coming from the US on Pakistani authorities to either arrest Hafiz Saeed or face the sanctions, and the government succumbed to that pressure,\u2019\u2019 Nadeem Awan, a spokesman for Saeed, said Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/news\/world\/2017\/01\/31\/pakistan-fearing-visa-ban-cracks-down-militant-group\/llMSdPSvLjgwpI206JpiEK\/story.html<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/pakistan-fearing-us-visa-ban-cracks-militant-group.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan, fearing US visa ban, cracks down on militant group Pakistan, fearing US visa ban, cracks down on militant group:- The sudden house arrest of a high-profile Islamist cleric in Pakistan on Monday sparked peaceful protests Tuesday by his followers, who condemned it as a government effort to appease the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5470],"tags":[12901,12902,6860,12897,12899,12898,12900],"class_list":["post-21008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-jamaat-ud-dawa","tag-lashkar-e-taiba","tag-narendra-modi","tag-pakistan-fearing-us-visa-ban-cracks-down-on-militant-group","tag-rifaat-hussain","tag-vikas-swarup","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}