{"id":77211,"date":"2018-09-05T18:01:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T13:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=77211"},"modified":"2018-09-05T18:01:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T13:01:46","slug":"another-anp-leader-targeted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=77211","title":{"rendered":"Another ANP leader targeted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 20.25pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0in 0in 20.25pt 0in;\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 20.25pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0in 0in 20.25pt 0in;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #212121; letter-spacing: .1pt; font-weight: normal;\">PESHAWAR:\u00a0Another <\/span><\/strong>Awami National Party\u2019s leader has been targeted by terrorists as Ibrar Khalil was\u00a0gunned down\u00a0by unidentified gunmen\u00a0in Subhanabad area of Peshawar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 20.25pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 20.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #212121; letter-spacing: .1pt;\">Khalil\u2019s nephew Rashid was also killed in the attack. Police confirmed both had succumbed to their injuries. Officials said the motive remained unclear as Khalil, the ANP candidate in PK-74 during the recently-concluded general elections, was party to a longstanding family feud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 20.25pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 20.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #212121; letter-spacing: .1pt;\">ANP leader Haroon Bilour and 12 others were\u00a0killed in a July suicide attack earlier.\u00a0Around\u00a0three dozens were injured in the explosion that took place at a party rally in Peshawar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 20.25pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 20.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #212121; letter-spacing: .1pt;\">The explosion occurred near Haroon\u2019s vehicle. Party activists staged a demonstration at Peshawar\u2019s Lady Reading Hospital against what they termed was the government\u2019s failure to provide adequate security to Haroon after news of the attack spread.\u00a0Haroon\u2019s father Bashir, an ANP heavyweight, was earlier killed in a 2012 suicide attack.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR:\u00a0Another Awami National Party\u2019s leader has been targeted by terrorists as Ibrar Khalil was\u00a0gunned down\u00a0by unidentified gunmen\u00a0in Subhanabad area of Peshawar. Khalil\u2019s nephew Rashid was also killed in the attack. Police confirmed both had succumbed to their injuries. Officials said the motive remained unclear as Khalil, the ANP candidate in PK-74 during the recently-concluded general [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77211","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=77211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77213,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77211\/revisions\/77213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}