{"id":16118,"date":"2017-08-28T13:18:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T08:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=16118"},"modified":"2017-09-08T21:36:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T16:36:18","slug":"tribesmen-stage-protest-against-trumps-new-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=16118","title":{"rendered":"Tribesmen stage protest against Trump\u2019s new strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LANDI KOTAL Aug. 28 (TNS):<\/strong> Tribesmen from Khyber Agency on Monday rallied from Landi Kotal to Torkham border to protest against the new policy recently announced by US president Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>A large number of people from different parts of Khyber Agency gathered at Hamza Baba ground in Landi Kotal before heading towards Torkham border, where they staged the protest.<\/p>\n<p>A number of pedestrians holding Pakistan flags, including members of the Sikh community, also made their way towards the border, along with scores of vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, a\u00a0<em>jirga<\/em>\u00a0of tribal elders decided to hold a protest demonstration against the US president&#8217;s statement.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Bab-i-Pakistan gate on the Pak-Afghan Border at Torkhum has been shut closed for all type of movement.<\/p>\n<p>The security sources said that the border closure came about as a preemptive step in light of the rally.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0a similar protest is also underway near the Pak-Afghan border in Chaman, Baluchistan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANDI KOTAL Aug. 28 (TNS): Tribesmen from Khyber Agency on Monday rallied from Landi Kotal to Torkham border to protest against the new policy recently announced by US president Donald Trump. A large number of people from different parts of Khyber Agency gathered at Hamza Baba ground in Landi Kotal before heading towards Torkham border, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[863,589,108],"class_list":["post-16118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-landi-kotal","tag-national","tag-tns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16118","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=16118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16120,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16118\/revisions\/16120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}