{"id":14949,"date":"2017-08-21T20:31:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T15:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=14949"},"modified":"2017-08-21T20:31:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T15:31:13","slug":"cm-punjab-was-actual-target-of-terrorists-says-dg-ispr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=14949","title":{"rendered":"CM Punjab was actual target of terrorists: says DG ISPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rawalpindi, August 21 (TNS):<\/strong> Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif was the actual target of July 24 suicide attack near Arfa Karim IT Park in Lahore, said DG ISPR Maj-Gen Asif Ghafoor on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe real target of the suicide attack in Lahore at the Arfa Karim IT park was Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif,\u201d Maj-Gen Asif Ghafoor said, in a media briefing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to our investigation, terrorists wanted to target Chief Minister of Punjab and after failing to do so, they targeted the police,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe plan was changed at the very last moment,\u201d Ghafoor told a press briefing in which he also shared the gains of Operation Khyber-IV with media men.<\/p>\n<p>Maj Gen Asif also\u00a0announced that the militant involved in perpetrating suicide attacks on prominent personalities, including Punjab Chief Minister, had been apprehended.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the terrorists were affiliated with the group of Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadav\u201d, he\u00a0added.<\/p>\n<p>At least 26 people, nine policemen among them, were killed and scores of others were wounded on 24 July when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a vegetable market near Arfa Karim IT Park in Lahore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rawalpindi, August 21 (TNS): Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif was the actual target of July 24 suicide attack near Arfa Karim IT Park in Lahore, said DG ISPR Maj-Gen Asif Ghafoor on Monday. \u201cThe real target of the suicide attack in Lahore at the Arfa Karim IT park was Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif,\u201d Maj-Gen Asif [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[589],"class_list":["post-14949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14951,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14949\/revisions\/14951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}