{"id":1167964,"date":"2023-08-02T17:32:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T17:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/02\/pakistan-government-faces-backlash-over-draconian-arrest-powers"},"modified":"2023-08-02T17:32:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T17:32:46","slug":"pakistan-government-faces-backlash-over-draconian-arrest-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/08\/02\/pakistan-government-faces-backlash-over-draconian-arrest-powers\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan government faces backlash over \u2018draconian\u2019 arrest powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amendment to bill would allow intelligence agencies to search \u2018enemies\u2019 and their premises without warrant<\/p><p>The Pakistan government is facing a backlash from MPs and senators after introducing an amendment to a colonial-era secrets act that critics have said will grant \u201cdraconian\u201d powers to its military intelligence agency to detain and arrest citizens with impunity.<\/p><p>The amendment was quietly added in a parliamentary session and passed without providing copies to MPs, creating concern among parliamentarians on both sides of the aisle.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/02\/pakistan-government-faces-backlash-over-draconian-arrest-powers\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/02\/pakistan-government-faces-backlash-over-draconian-arrest-powers\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amendment to bill would allow intelligence agencies to search \u2018enemies\u2019 and their premises without warrantThe Pakistan government is facing a backlash from MPs and senators after introducing an amendment to a colonial-era secrets act that critics have &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16150,511,2038],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1167965,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167964\/revisions\/1167965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}