{"id":1382,"date":"2017-01-14T16:27:11","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T16:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2017-01-14T16:27:11","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T16:27:11","slug":"very-concerned-about-pakistani-bloggers-activists-going-missing-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/?p=1382","title":{"rendered":"Very concerned about Pakistani bloggers, activists going missing: US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/l_178874_090318_updates.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1383\" alt=\"l_178874_090318_updates\" src=\"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/l_178874_090318_updates.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/l_178874_090318_updates.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/l_178874_090318_updates-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON: The US State Department on Friday expressed concern over the missing Pakistani bloggers and social media activists and said they were\u00a0monitoring the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Replying to a question, State Department spokesperson, Mark C. Toner said, &#8220;We\u2019re very concerned by reports that several Pakistani bloggers and activists have been reported missing and we\u2019re going to continue to monitor the situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We value freedom of expression, that\u2019s something we take very seriously and are going to continue to monitor the situation in Pakistan,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>While commenting on the \u2018tactical security operations center\u2019 about which Secretary of State John Kerry had said that Pakistan was among the countries in which the US has state-of-the-art security operations center, Toner added it\u2019s an embassy operations center for monitoring purpose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s basically monitoring worldwide activity 24\/7 in order to \u2013 if something happens in anywhere in the world that affects our people or affects American citizens or is a crisis that it has to involve the Secretary of State or, rather, the inter-agency, the operations center is, if you will, the first responders to any kind of activity like that, to any kind of crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elaborating on the function of these centres, Toner said the embassy operations center are kind of a central location \u2013 is a central location to a kind of coordinate security and emergency events as well as monitor threats to the embassy or its personnel and it allows for real-time communications with Diplomatic Security and department officials in Washington. It also allows us a way to connect directly with host government officials. So we have one of these in Pakistan, we have them elsewhere in the world as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; WASHINGTON: The US State Department on Friday expressed concern over the missing Pakistani bloggers and social media activists and said they were\u00a0monitoring the situation. Replying to a question, State Department spokesperson, Mark C. Toner said, &#8220;We\u2019re very concerned by reports that several Pakistani bloggers and activists have been reported missing and we\u2019re going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-international","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1384,"href":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions\/1384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpectrade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}