{"id":11152,"date":"2024-10-25T18:26:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T12:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=11152"},"modified":"2024-10-25T18:26:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T12:41:08","slug":"pakistani-taliban-attack-kills-10-police-in-northwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/pakistani-taliban-attack-kills-10-police-in-northwest\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani Taliban attack kills 10 police in northwest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Ten police were shot dead at a check post near the Afghan border, officials said Friday, in an attack claimed by the Pakistan Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The intense exchange of fire lasted for nearly an hour. Ten Frontier Constabulary personnel were martyred, and seven were wounded during the attack,&#8221; a senior intelligence officer told AFP on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>About 20 to 25 militants launched a heavy assault on a post of the Frontier Constabulary, a police assistance force, in the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan has seen an increase in militancy since the Afghan Taliban returned to power in 2021, with the Pakistani chapter of the movement carrying out attacks mostly targeting security forces.<br \/>\nA senior official from the Frontier Constabulary also confirmed the details on the condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>The attack was around 70 kilometre (around 43 miles) east of Afghan border.<br \/>\nOne policeman was killed in a separate attack carried out on Thursday night, also close to the Afghan border in Khyber district.<\/p>\n<p>Last month a police convoy escorting foreign ambassadors was targeted in road side blast that left a policeman dead.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistani Taliban historically has roots in Afghanistan and shares the same ideology as the Afghan Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>Islamabad says such attacks are being launched from neighbouring Afghanistan by various militant groups, many linked to the TTP, which the Taliban authorities in Kabul deny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten police were shot dead at a check post near the Afghan border, officials said Friday, in an attack claimed by the Pakistan Taliban. &#8220;The intense exchange of fire lasted for nearly an hour. Ten Frontier Constabulary personnel were martyred, and seven were wounded during the attack,&#8221; a senior intelligence officer told AFP on condition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11154,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11152\/revisions\/11154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}