{"id":35804,"date":"2018-07-01T11:54:49","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T11:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=35804"},"modified":"2018-07-01T11:54:49","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T11:54:49","slug":"pakistan-gets-its-first-sikh-newscaster-harmeet-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/pakistan-gets-its-first-sikh-newscaster-harmeet-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan gets its first Sikh newscaster, Harmeet Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In a first, a Sikh man has been hired as an anchor by a news channel in Pakistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Harmeet Singh, who is a resident of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province\u2019s Chakesar city, has joined the Public News channel. The official handle of the media house posted a video of Singh on twitter and captioned, \u201cPakistan\u2019s 1st Sikh News Anchor Harmeet Singh only on #PublicNews.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Manmeet Kaur had become the first female Sikh reporter in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was always interested in the thriving media industry in Pakistan,\u201d Singh said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t use any religion card to gain access in the media industry. I worked hard and did a lot of work before I got any recognition,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Media veteran Yousaf Baig Mirza, who heads the Public News channel, said Singh was chosen as newscaster due to his flamboyant looks and voice pitch.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a first, a Sikh man has been hired as an anchor by a news channel in Pakistan. Harmeet Singh, who is a resident of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province\u2019s Chakesar city, has joined the Public News channel. The official handle of the media house posted a video of Singh on twitter and captioned, \u201cPakistan\u2019s 1st Sikh [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35806,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35804\/revisions\/35806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}