{"id":613,"date":"2007-08-15T07:49:37","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T06:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=613"},"modified":"2007-08-15T07:49:37","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T06:49:37","slug":"the-break-up-of-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=613","title":{"rendered":"The break up of Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the world notes the 60th anniversary celebrations of the creation of India and Pakistan in 1947.<br \/>\nIn fact, what we now call simply Pakistan was in fact Western Pakistan in 1947. There was an Eastern Pakistan until it broke away in 1971 to become an independent state called Bangladesh.<br \/>\nReally these anniversary celebrations ought to be embracing Bangladesh which I covered in my &#8220;Forgotton World&#8221; series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/ForgottenWorld.html#Bangladesh\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the world notes the 60th anniversary celebrations of the creation of India and Pakistan in 1947. In fact, what we now call simply Pakistan was in fact Western Pakistan in 1947. There was an Eastern Pakistan until it broke away in 1971 to become an independent state called Bangladesh. Really these anniversary celebrations ought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}