{"id":80034,"date":"2015-07-30T14:26:55","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T14:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/forced-eviction-from-islamabad-widely-condemned\/"},"modified":"2015-07-30T14:26:55","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T14:26:55","slug":"forced-eviction-from-islamabad-widely-condemned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/forced-eviction-from-islamabad-widely-condemned\/","title":{"rendered":"Forced eviction from Islamabad widely condemned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD (SW): Pakistan&rsquo;s Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) have intensified an eviction operation in the federal capital Islamabad&rsquo;s slums that has reportedly caused the death of a minor, arrests, torture and damage to property.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Awami Workers Party (AWP), a local organization fighting for the poor&rsquo;s right to shelter, Punjab Police has fired rubber bullets and tear gas in the slums and has forcefully destroyed the mud houses.<\/p>\n<p>Women have been beaten up, kicked off of roofs, with their clothing torn off their bodies. Several children, women and elderly critically injured. Police have set people&#39;s homes on fire. Over 80 people have been arrested, including AWP&#39;s Hassan Turi, it said.<\/p>\n<p>The government however claims the slums were illegal and were served notices before the operation. Most inhabitants of this camp were beleived to be internally displaced people from Pakistan&#39;s restive tribal belt and Afghan refugees.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD (SW): Pakistan\u2019s Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) have intensified an eviction operation in the federal capital Islamabad\u2019s slums that has reportedly caused the death of a minor, arrests, torture and damage to property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-80034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}