{"id":41566,"date":"2017-02-25T22:48:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T17:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=41566"},"modified":"2017-02-25T22:48:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T17:18:33","slug":"security-tightened-hindu-temple-pak-shivratri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=41566","title":{"rendered":"Security tightened at Hindu temple in Pak for Shivratri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security was today stepped up at a Hindu temple here in view of the Maha Shivratri festival observed by the minority community in Pakistan.<br \/>\nSenior Superintendent of Police (Operations) Sajjad Khan paid a surprise visit to the temple in Jhanda Bazar to review the security arrangements for the festival.<span class=\"p-content\"><br \/>\nThe officer said that &#8220;providing protection to worship places of minorities is our prime responsibility&#8221;.<br \/>\nA large number of policemen have been deployed in the premises to maintain law and order.<br \/>\nPerforming the ritual on the midnight of Shivratri is considered auspicious by the devotees.<br \/>\nCultural programmes would also be organised in many temples to mark the festival.<br \/>\nSeveral Hindu pilgrims from India visit Lahore every year to participate in the Maha Shivratri festivities.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security was today stepped up at a Hindu temple here in view of the Maha Shivratri festival observed by the minority community in Pakistan. Senior Superintendent of Police (Operations) Sajjad Khan paid a surprise visit to the temple in Jhanda Bazar to review the security arrangements for the festival. The officer said that &#8220;providing protection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}