{"id":335527,"date":"2017-03-11T01:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/general-najib-zahid-join-special-prayer-for-malaysia\/"},"modified":"2017-03-11T01:00:26","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T17:00:26","slug":"general-najib-zahid-join-special-prayer-for-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/general-najib-zahid-join-special-prayer-for-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"General : Najib, Zahid Join Special Prayer For Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"newsPic2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newsdata2.bernama.com\/bernama\/newspic\/ge\/sembahyang%20hajat.jpg\" border=\"1\" width=\"300\"\/><br \/><\/span>PUTRAJAYA, March 10 (Bernama) &#8212; Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak today joined a congregation of over 8,000 at the Putra Mosque here to perform the &#8216;solat hajat&#8217; (special prayer), to pray for the safety and wellbeing of Malaysia, which is now in a tense diplomatic spat with North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Also present were Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and Minister in the Prime Minister&#8217;s Department Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom.<\/p>\n<p>The special prayer, which followed the Friday prayer, was led by Putra Mosque Grand Imam Datuk Abd Manaf Mat.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Najib called on all mosques in the country to hold the special prayer for the safety of Malaysians in North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Nine Malaysians including three officers from the Malaysian Embassy in Pyongyang are currently stranded there after the North Korean government banned all Malaysian citizens from leaving the republic.<\/p>\n<p>The ban came about after Malaysia declared North Korean ambassador Kang Chol as persona non grata, leading to his expulsion from the country.<\/p>\n<p>Two other Malaysians &#8211; Stella Lim and Nyanaprakash Muniandy &#8211; who participated in the World Food Programme (WFP) of the United Nations (UN) were allowed to leave Pyongyang and had safely arrived in Beijing, China.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><font size=1>PUTRAJAYA, March 10 (Bernama) &#8212; Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak today joined a congregation of over 8,000 at the Putra Mosque here to perform the &#8216;solat hajat&#8217; (special prayer), to pray for the safety and wellbeing of Malaysia, which is now in a tense diplomatic spat with North Korea.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[67,59,32],"class_list":["post-335527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-bernama","tag-media","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}