{"id":47064,"date":"2026-04-09T21:04:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=47064"},"modified":"2026-04-09T21:04:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:04:25","slug":"protest-staged-against-israeli-strikes-on-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=47064","title":{"rendered":"Protest staged against Israeli strikes on Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A protest demonstration was staged at Numaish Chowrangi on Thursday against Israeli aggression on Lebanon, despite the recent Iran-US ceasefire brokered by Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The rally, organised on an emergency call by representative organisations of the Shia community, drew a large number of participants, including religious scholars, political activists, women, youth and children.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the gathering, speakers criticised US President Donald Trump, alleging that he failed to honour the spirit of the ceasefire. They referred to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif&#8217;s recent statement indicating that a ceasefire would be observed across all fronts in the region, including Lebanon, but claimed that the US leadership had backtracked on this understanding within 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The speakers further alleged that the US had undermined Pakistan&#8217;s diplomatic efforts and pointed to reported threats of imposing tariffs on countries trading with Iran as evidence of Washington&#8217;s &#8220;hostile intent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Condemning Israeli strikes on Lebanon, the speakers said that hundreds of civilians, including women and children, had been killed in the ongoing bombardment. They described the attacks as a continuation of Israel&#8217;s &#8220;aggressive and unlawful conduct&#8221; in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The participants warned that unless a comprehensive ceasefire is enforced across all fronts, tensions in the region would escalate further, holding the US and Israel responsible for any consequences.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A protest demonstration was staged at Numaish Chowrangi on Thursday against Israeli aggression on Lebanon, despite the recent Iran-US ceasefire brokered by Pakistan. The rally, organised on an emergency call by representative organisations of the Shia community, drew a large number of participants, including religious scholars, political activists, women, youth and children. Addressing the gathering, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}