{"id":4798,"date":"2010-08-04T12:04:51","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T12:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/08\/04\/amir-backs-flood-appeal\/"},"modified":"2010-08-04T12:04:51","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T12:04:51","slug":"amir-backs-flood-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/04\/amir-backs-flood-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Amir backs Flood appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Millions stranded in Pakistan in worst natural disaster to hit the country<\/h3>\n<div><strong>WORLD light welterweight champion Amir Khan is\u00a0backing Save the Children\u2019s fundraising appeal\u00a0for the\u00a0Pakistan\u00a0floods.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The British-Pakistani boxer from Bolton said: \u201cSave the Children are helping the children and families in Pakistan who have been affected by the severe flooding. Their teams are providing critical emergency heath care. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cI hope you will join me in supporting this emergency appeal to help save children\u2019s lives in this devastating situation. Please go to savethechildren.org.uk to find out more and help.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Record-breaking monsoon rains have triggered deadly floods and mudslides which have left 1,500 people dead and hundreds of thousands of families struggling to survive.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Save the Children \u2013 which is one of the only aid agencies able to reach some of the remote northernmost parts of the Swat Valley \u2013 has used helicopters, donkeys boats and rafts to deliver doctors and medical supplies to families cut off by the water.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><a title=\"http:\/\/www.savethechildren.org.uk\/pakistanappeal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.savethechildren.org.uk\/pakistanappeal\">www.savethechildren.org.uk\/pakistanappeal<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions stranded in Pakistan in worst natural disaster to hit the country WORLD light welterweight champion Amir Khan is\u00a0backing Save the Children\u2019s fundraising appeal\u00a0for the\u00a0Pakistan\u00a0floods. &#13; The British-Pakistani boxer from Bolton said: \u201cSave the Children are helping the children and families in Pakistan who have been affected by the severe flooding. Their teams are providing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}