{"id":2935,"date":"2019-01-16T19:07:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T19:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/?p=2935"},"modified":"2019-01-16T19:07:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T19:07:39","slug":"top-taliban-commander-among-4-militants-killed-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2019\/01\/16\/top-taliban-commander-among-4-militants-killed-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Taliban commander among 4 militants killed in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PESHAWAR: Security forces in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/shahid-khaqan-abbasi\">Pakistan<\/a>&nbsp;have gunned down four militants, including a top Taliban commander who masterminded the last year&#8217;s powerful bomb blast in the restive&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa\">Khyber Pakhtunkhwa<\/a>&nbsp;province in which at least 31 people including three Sikhs were killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those killed in the exchange of fire include Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) commander Islam and Mohibullah who were involved in various terror activities, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A huge cache of arms and ammunition was also recovered from their possession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Intelligence agencies raided a house near Qazi pump area where the militants were believed to be hiding. The owner of the house was also killed in the firing between the militants and security forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In November, 31 people including three Sikhs were killed and over 40 others injured in the bomb blast at the Friday Market (Juma Bazar) near an imambargah, a Shia religious place, in Orakzai tribal district&#8217;s Kalaya area, bordering&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Afghanistan\">Afghanistan<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prime Minister Imran Khan had strongly condemned the terrorist attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Orakzai, a terror hotbed, is one of the seven semi-autonomous tribal regions of Pakistan which has a porus border with Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR: Security forces in&nbsp;Pakistan&nbsp;have gunned down four militants, including a top Taliban commander who masterminded the last year&#8217;s powerful bomb blast in the restive&nbsp;Khyber Pakhtunkhwa&nbsp;province in which at least 31 people including three Sikhs were killed. Those killed in the exchange of fire include Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) commander Islam and Mohibullah who were involved in various terror activities, officials said&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2019\/01\/16\/top-taliban-commander-among-4-militants-killed-in-pakistan\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935","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\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2936,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions\/2936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}