{"id":20694,"date":"2013-01-15T06:39:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T05:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/01\/15\/283616\/pakistani-police-attack-cleric-supporters\/"},"modified":"2013-01-15T06:39:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T05:39:08","slug":"pakistani-police-attack-cleric-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/pakistani-police-attack-cleric-supporters\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani police attack cleric supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\">Pakistani cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri gestures before the start of a long-march in eastern Pakistan&#8217;s Lahore, Jan. 13, 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<p>The Pakistani police have attacked supporters of an influential Muslim cleric during an anti-corruption rally in Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>The security forces used tear gas to disperse a growing crowd of demonstrators holding the protest rally near the parliament building on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Reports say the protesters also threw stones at security forces near the parliament and smashed the windowpanes of vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration was held after Pakistani cleric Tahir-ul Qadri called on his supporters to march into the capital to demand a peaceful &#8220;revolution&#8221; and the dissolution of parliament.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Qadri gave a one-day-long deadline to the government to dissolve the parliament.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n&#8220;After that, the people&#8217;s assembly here will take their own decision,&#8221; he said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Qadri and his followers left the city of Lahore on Sunday and reached Islamabad late on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The officials accuse the cleric of trying to delay elections, due by May, and sow political chaos.<\/p>\n<p>However, the supporters of Qadri say he wants an end to the corruption and problems facing Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>DB\/HN<\/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>Pakistani cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri gestures before the start of a long-march in eastern Pakistan&#8217;s Lahore, Jan. 13, 2013.<br \/>\nThe Pakistani police have attacked supporters of an influential Muslim cleric during an anti-corruption rally in Islamabad.<br \/>\nThe secur&#8230;<\/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-20694","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\/20694","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=20694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}