{"id":29541,"date":"2017-11-07T17:02:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T12:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=29541"},"modified":"2017-11-07T21:10:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T16:10:19","slug":"funeral-prayers-offered-for-pakistani-diplomatic-staffer-killed-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=29541","title":{"rendered":"Funeral prayers offered for Pakistani diplomatic staffer killed in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD Nov 07 (TNS):<\/strong> The funeral prayers of a Pakistani diplomatic staffer in Afghanistan, Rana Nayyar, were held in the federal capital on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The funeral prayers were attended by Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif.<\/p>\n<p>Nayyar&#8217;s body was handed over to the Pakistani authorities at the Torkham border Tuesday morning, from where it arrived in Peshawar and was sent to Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DGIsoNj4SHI\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He was shot dead outside his residence in Jalalabad, Afghanistan by unidentified persons a day earlier, family sources told TNS.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistani Foreign Office condemned the killing of the staffer in the eastern city of the war-ravaged country and demanded increased security from Afghan authorities for its diplomatic staff and missions in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD Nov 07 (TNS): The funeral prayers of a Pakistani diplomatic staffer in Afghanistan, Rana Nayyar, were held in the federal capital on Tuesday. The funeral prayers were attended by Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif. Nayyar&#8217;s body was handed over to the Pakistani authorities at the Torkham border Tuesday morning, from where it arrived in Peshawar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589,111,110],"class_list":["post-29541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-islamabad","tag-national","tag-pakistan-news","tag-times-international-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29541","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=29541"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29585,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29541\/revisions\/29585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}