{"id":4903,"date":"2014-03-23T01:31:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T08:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=4903"},"modified":"2014-03-23T01:31:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T08:31:14","slug":"pakistani-politician-bound-for-canada-denied-airline-seatmedia-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/23\/pakistani-politician-bound-for-canada-denied-airline-seatmedia-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani politician bound for Canada denied airline seat:Media reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4904\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4904\" style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/393904_159395070834686_683848394_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4904\" alt=\"Pakistani politician Sheikh Rashid Ahmed Photo: Facebook Page of Sheikh Rashid Ahmed\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/393904_159395070834686_683848394_n.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/393904_159395070834686_683848394_n.jpg 425w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/393904_159395070834686_683848394_n-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pakistani politician Sheikh Rashid Ahmed<br \/>Photo: Facebook Page of Sheikh Rashid Ahmed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ISLAMABAD &#8211; There are media reports that a Pakistani opposition politician was denied a seat on a flight bound for Toronto after he turned up on a United States no-fly list.<\/p>\n<p>Some media outlets in Pakistan are reporting that\u00a0Sheikh Rashid Ahmed failed to get clearance from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security when he tried to board a Pakistan International Airlines flight on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed is a member of Pakistan&#8217;s national assembly.<\/p>\n<p>He is quoted by the Pakistani news website the Daily Times as saying he received a visa from the Canadian government to visit Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Times reported Ahmed was attending a Pakistan Day celebration in Canada today.<\/p>\n<p>Another website, the Nation, reported he was travelling to Calgary to attend a meeting of his party members.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD &#8211; There are media reports that a Pakistani opposition politician was denied a seat on a flight bound for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":4904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1299],"class_list":["post-4903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","tag-sheikh-rashid-ahmed","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}