{"id":34141,"date":"2012-08-20T15:30:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T15:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pakistan_suspends_phone_networks_to_thwart_attacks\/"},"modified":"2012-08-20T15:30:45","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T15:30:45","slug":"pakistan_suspends_phone_networks_to_thwart_attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34141","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Pakistan suspends phone networks to thwart attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The draconian security measure was imposed on Sunday at 8:00 pm, at a time when millions ordinarily telephone friends and relatives with greetings for Eid al-Fitr. Networks were working again on Monday mid-morning.<br \/>\nKarachi and Lahore, Pakistan&#8217;s two largest cities, and the troubled city of Quetta, in the insurgency-torn province of Baluchistan, were among the places where networks were suspended.<br \/>\n&#8220;We regret that it had to be suspended in some cities due to the risk of terrorist attacks,&#8221; Rehman Malik, the country&#8217;s interior minister, was quoted as saying by state TV.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/asia\/pakistan\/9486875\/Pakistan-suspends-phone-networks-to-thwart-attacks.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The draconian security measure was imposed on Sunday at 8:00 pm, at a time when millions ordinarily telephone friends and relatives with greetings for Eid al-Fitr. Networks were working again on Monday mid-morning. Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan&#8217;s two largest cities,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34141\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,201,143,114,343,95,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-defense-national-security-military","category-law-legal-issues","category-pakistan","category-science-technology","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}