{"id":36077,"date":"2013-05-25T06:29:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T05:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/pakistan-releases-militant-group-leader\/36077\/"},"modified":"2013-05-25T06:29:45","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T05:29:45","slug":"pakistan-releases-militant-group-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/pakistan-releases-militant-group-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan releases militant group leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan has released the leader of the banned Pakistani militant group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Malik Mohammad Ishaq from prison.\n<\/p>\n<p>Malik Ishaq was released in the Punjabi capital Lahore on Thursday without being prosecuted.\n<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested and held in custody in February. His group was outlawed by the Pakistani government shortly after his arrest.\n<\/p>\n<p>Most terrorist organizations like Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Sipah-e-Sahaba are believed to be enjoying the support of external powers.\n<\/p>\n<p>Ishaq\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s imprisonment was a precautionary measure during Pakistan\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s election. He has orchestrated numerous terrorist attacks against Shia Muslims in Pakistan. Most of the attacks have been in the city of Quetta in southwestern Pakistan where more than 180 Shias have been killed since January.\n<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan held elections on May 11. Nawaz Sharif\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s Pakistan Muslim League-N Party won the National Assembly elections.\n<\/p>\n<p>IA\/HN<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/05\/25\/305277\/pakistan-releases-militant-group-leader\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pakistan releases militant group leader\">Press TV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan has released the leader of the banned Pakistani militant group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Malik Mohammad Ishaq from prison. Malik Ishaq was released in the Punjabi capital Lahore on Thursday without being prosecuted. He was arrested and held in custody in February. His group was outlawed by the Pakistani government shortly after his arrest. Most terrorist organizations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36077","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\/36077","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}