{"id":19376,"date":"2013-01-09T22:57:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T21:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/01\/09\/282708\/shia-ppp-politician-killed-in-peshawar\/"},"modified":"2013-01-09T22:57:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T21:57:21","slug":"shia-ppp-politician-killed-in-peshawar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/shia-ppp-politician-killed-in-peshawar\/","title":{"rendered":"Shia PPP politician killed in Peshawar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\">Pakistani policemen gather after the killing of a Shia Muslim judge in Quetta on August 30, 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<p>Gunmen have killed a Shia Muslim politician who was the senior member of the main ruling Pakistan People&#8217;s Party (PPP) in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, police say.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Riaz Hussein, the president of the PPP branch in the Kurram tribal region, was shot dead on Wednesday when he was leaving his clinic in the Dabgari area of Peshawar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The gunmen fired at Hussein&#8217;s car when he left his clinic. Apparently, he is victim of sectarian targeted killings,&#8221; said local police official Kamal Hussein.<\/p>\n<p>Imran Shah, a senior police official, also said that police forces had launched &#8220;an investigation into the murder of Doctor Riaz Hussein,\u201d adding that the incident \u201clooks like a sectarian killing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anti-Shia militant groups have been engaged in a violent campaign against Shias over the past few years.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of Shia Muslims were killed across Pakistan last year.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks targeted many doctors, engineers, high-ranking government officials, teachers, and politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights groups in Pakistan have vehemently criticized the government for its failure to stem the rising tide of violence against the country&#8217;s Shia Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>Shias make up almost 20 percent of the country&#8217;s 180-million-strong population.<\/p>\n<p>DB\/MHB<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span>Pakistani policemen gather after the killing of a Shia Muslim judge in Quetta on August 30, 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Gunmen have killed a Shia Muslim politician who was the senior member of the main ruling Pakistan People&#8217;s Party (PPP) in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, police say.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Riaz Hussein, the president of the PPP branch in the Kurram tribal region, was shot dead on Wednesday when he was leaving his clinic in the Dabgari area of Peshawar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The gunmen fired at Hussein&#8217;s car when he left his clinic. Apparently, he is victim of sectarian targeted killings,&#8221; said local police official Kamal Hussein.<\/p>\n<p>Imran Shah, a senior police official, also said that police forces had launched &#8220;an investigation into the murder of Doctor Riaz Hussein,&rdquo; adding that the incident &ldquo;looks like a sectarian killing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anti-Shia militant groups have been engaged in a violent campaign against Shias over the past few years.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of Shia Muslims were killed across Pakistan last year.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks targeted many doctors, engineers, high-ranking government officials, teachers, and politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights groups in Pakistan have vehemently criticized the government for its failure to stem the rising tide of violence against the country&#8217;s Shia Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>Shias make up almost 20 percent of the country&#8217;s 180-million-strong population.<\/p>\n<p>DB\/MHB<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}