{"id":85529,"date":"2026-02-25T17:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85529"},"modified":"2026-02-25T17:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:28:07","slug":"phd-student-abducted-over-social-media-posts-while-working-on-dissertation-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/25\/phd-student-abducted-over-social-media-posts-while-working-on-dissertation-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD student &#8216;abducted&#8217; over social media posts while working on dissertation in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1X0ZnY.img?w=534&amp;h=419&amp;m=6\" alt=\"A review of Ahmed Khan's X page shows he repeatedly shared his support for former Prime Minister Imran Khan's release from prison , and on February 18, just one day before he went missing, he shared a post from Al Jazeera English that Pakistan's Punjab police killed 900 people in eight months\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Canadian PhD student working on his dissertation in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/pakistan\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Pakistan<\/a> has been arrested over his social media posts. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/phd-student-abducted-over-social-media-posts-while-working-on-dissertation-in-pakistan\/ar-AA1X0Zce?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=699f2a7047bb46d38448979450b6ce48&amp;ei=120\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A Canadian PhD student working on his dissertation in\u00a0Pakistan has been arrested over his social media posts. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Hamza-Ahmed-Khan.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85531,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85529\/revisions\/85531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}