{"id":1162,"date":"2014-02-15T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2014-02-15T13:04:35","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T13:04:35","slug":"valentines-protests-in-india-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/valentines-protests-in-india-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine\u2019s protests in India, Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/India.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1163\" alt=\"India\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/India-300x180.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/India-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/India.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Anti Valentine\u2019s Day protesters took to streets of cities in India and Pakistan on Friday, saying the observation of the day was anathema to their cultures and societies.<br \/>\nPolice in Peshawar say two rival student groups have clashed at a university in the country\u2019s northwest over celebrating Valentine\u2019s Day.<br \/>\nPolice official Raheem Hussain says Friday\u2019s violence erupted at the University of Peshawar when dozens of students from a liberal group rallied in favor of the romantic holiday.<br \/>\nTheir rally was taking place at the same location where conservative students had gathered to promote a \u201cModesty Day\u201d instead.<br \/>\nIn the Indian city of Indore, Bhopal, several Hindu activists from the Sanskriti Bachao Manch (Save Culture Forum) set fire to posters and greeting cards during a protest against Valentine\u2019s Day on the eve of the celebration in Bhopal.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/valentines-protests-in-india-pakistan\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti Valentine\u2019s Day protesters took to streets of cities in India and Pakistan on Friday, saying the observation of the day was anathema to their cultures and societies. Police in Peshawar say two rival student groups have clashed at a university in the country\u2019s northwest over celebrating Valentine\u2019s Day. Police official Raheem Hussain says Friday\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1164,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions\/1164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}