{"id":12455,"date":"2024-11-19T13:57:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T08:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=12455"},"modified":"2024-11-19T13:57:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T08:12:18","slug":"8-soldiers-killed-7-policemen-kidnapped-in-pakistan-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/8-soldiers-killed-7-policemen-kidnapped-in-pakistan-police\/","title":{"rendered":"8 soldiers killed, 7 policemen kidnapped in Pakistan: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Eight soldiers were killed and seven police officers kidnapped in separate attacks in northwest Pakistan, police and intelligence officials told AFP on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A Monday clash resulted in the deaths of &#8220;eight soldiers&#8221; and &#8220;nine militants&#8221; in the Tirah area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, an intelligence officer said on condition of anonymity.<br \/>\nThe Pakistani Taliban (TTP) claimed responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate attack in the province, &#8220;seven police officers were kidnapped&#8221; at a checkpoint, said a senior police official, also speaking anonymously.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The assailants also seized the weapons belonging to the officials,&#8221; he added. Another police official, Muhammad Zia ud-Din, confirmed the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan has seen a rise in attacks by the TTP on its border with Afghanistan. The group killed 10 police officers on October 25.<\/p>\n<p>Islamist or separatist attacks on Pakistan&#8217;s security forces are taking place elsewhere in the country of 240 million.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, seven soldiers were killed by separatists in Pakistan&#8217;s southwest Balochistan province, a week after a bombing by the same group killed 26 people, including 14 soldiers, at a train station in the provincial capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight soldiers were killed and seven police officers kidnapped in separate attacks in northwest Pakistan, police and intelligence officials told AFP on Tuesday. A Monday clash resulted in the deaths of &#8220;eight soldiers&#8221; and &#8220;nine militants&#8221; in the Tirah area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, an intelligence officer said on condition of anonymity. The Pakistani Taliban (TTP) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12455","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\/12455"}],"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=12455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12458,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12455\/revisions\/12458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}