{"id":15579,"date":"2017-06-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/06\/27\/international-yoga-day-pakistan-celebrates-the-day-but-on-muted-scale\/"},"modified":"2017-06-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T12:00:00","slug":"international-yoga-day-pakistan-celebrates-the-day-but-on-muted-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/06\/27\/international-yoga-day-pakistan-celebrates-the-day-but-on-muted-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"International Yoga Day: Pakistan Celebrates the Day, but on Muted Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/news\/world-international-yoga-day-in-pakistan-387440\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN, June 21, 2017 (India TV News): The third International Yoga Day was celebrated in Pakistan but on a muted scale. The organizers said a much bigger event will follow after Ramadan ends. Pakistani yoga guru Shamshad Haider, who runs over 50 clubs across the country, said in a telephone interview from Islamabad: &#8220;Due to Ramadan and people preparing for Eid, we could not organise a big event this year.&#8221; &#8220;We have routine sessions in all our clubs today but after Eid we are preparing for a much larger event in Rawalpindi.&#8221; He said his team expected more than 1,000 people to take part. The Indian High Commission also organised a yoga camp in Islamabad on Sunday, attended by India&#8217;s envoy Gautam Bambawale and other diplomats.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the Pakistan government not celebrating the yoga day, Haider, founder of Yoga Pakistan and Way of Nature, says his clubs have people from all religions. &#8220;It (government) never stopped us from doing yoga. It has granted us permission to hold yoga camps on its land and has also allowed us to promote yoga.&#8221; &#8220;Yoga helps to gain mental stability, peace, balanced living. It teaches us discipline which is vital in Islam and all religions.&#8221; Last year, on the second International Day of Yoga, Haider did yogic asanas along with 20,000 yoga students across Pakistan &#8212; but minus media publicity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN, June 21, 2017 (India TV News): The third International Yoga Day was celebrated in Pakistan but on,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}