{"id":14882,"date":"2019-04-10T15:14:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T12:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/aldarbnews\/2019\/04\/10\/the-man-who-wants-900-million-votes\/"},"modified":"2019-04-10T15:14:59","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T12:14:59","slug":"the-man-who-wants-900-million-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aldarbnews.net\/?p=14882","title":{"rendered":"The man who wants 900 million votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px auto; display: block;\" dir=\"rtl\" src=\"images\/stories\/year2019\/04\/987.jpg\" alt=\"987.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On a cold night in February, residents of the battle-weary city of Srinagar woke up to the noise of fighter jets buzzing in the inky black skies.<\/p>\n<p>War, many feared, was now just a shot away.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of the city in Indian-administered Kashmir had begun stocking up on food. Petrol pumps had run dry. Hospital doctors were told to stockpile medicines. Anxious residents talked about building bunkers in their gardens. A prominent politician rued that he had bought a house near the airport, which now didn&#8217;t seem like a &#8220;good idea&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Within days, Indian Mirage 2000 fighter aircraft were crossing deep into Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; On a cold night in February, residents of the battle-weary city of Srinagar woke up to the noise of fighter jets buzzing in the inky black skies. War, many feared, was now just a shot away. Residents of the city in Indian-administered Kashmir had begun stocking up on food. Petrol pumps had &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aldarbnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aldarbnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aldarbnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aldarbnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aldarbnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aldarbnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aldarbnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aldarbnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aldarbnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aldarbnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}