{"id":1675,"date":"2018-04-20T02:05:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T02:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/?p=1675"},"modified":"2018-04-20T02:05:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T02:05:42","slug":"taliban-seize-district-in-afghanistans-ghazni-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2018\/04\/20\/taliban-seize-district-in-afghanistans-ghazni-province\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban seize district in Afghanistan&#8217;s Ghazni province"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"section1\">\n<div>TOI<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"Normal\">GHAZNI: <a class=\"key_underline\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Taliban-militants\">Taliban militants<\/a> captured a district in Afghanistan\u2019s Ghazni province near the provincial capital early on Thursday and killed more than a dozen people including the district\u2019s governor, a police official said.<\/div>\n<div class=\"Normal\">\nGhazni\u2019s Khawaja Omari district was considered one of the province\u2019s safest districts.<\/p>\n<p>The militants killed district governor <a class=\"key_underline\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Ali-Dost-Shams\">Ali Dost Shams<\/a>, his bodyguards, seven police officers and five government intelligence agents, said Ramazan Ali Mohseni, deputy police chief in Ghazni.<\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"key_underline\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Taliban\">Taliban<\/a> then torched the district headquarters, he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"last7brdiv\"><\/div>\n<p>Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement 20 police officers were killed in the attack.<\/p>\n<div class=\"last6brdiv\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"last5brdiv\"><\/div>\n<p>The fall of Khawaja Omari to the Taliban extends their territory closer to the provincial capital, also called Ghazni, a city of 150,000 people 150 km (95 miles) southwest of the Afghan capital, Kabul.<\/p>\n<div class=\"last3brdiv\"><\/div>\n<p>Fighting in Afghanistan traditionally increases in the spring when warmer weather melts snow blocking mountain passes, increasing the mobility of the insurgents.<\/p>\n<div class=\"last2brdiv\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"last1brdiv\"><\/div>\n<p>The Taliban usually announce the launch of a spring offensive in April.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"brandwire_disclaimer\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOI GHAZNI: Taliban militants captured a district in Afghanistan\u2019s Ghazni province near the provincial capital early on Thursday and killed more than a dozen people including the district\u2019s governor, a police official said. Ghazni\u2019s Khawaja Omari district was considered one of the province\u2019s safest districts. The militants killed district governor Ali Dost Shams, his bodyguards, seven police officers and five&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2018\/04\/20\/taliban-seize-district-in-afghanistans-ghazni-province\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1676,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions\/1676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}