{"id":77582,"date":"2018-03-15T07:07:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T07:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/a-local-police-kills-more-than-20-taliban-in-paktika\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:37:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:37:23","slug":"a-local-police-kills-more-than-20-taliban-in-paktika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/a-local-police-kills-more-than-20-taliban-in-paktika\/","title":{"rendered":"A local police kills more than 20 Taliban in Paktika"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"393\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2018\/3- Mar\/15\/5464.jpg\" width=\"699\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">PAKTIKA (SW): The security officials in Paktika province told Salam Watandar that a local police who have been captured by the Taliban as a prisoner escaped the Taliban&rsquo;s captivity after killing 7 and injuring 18 other of the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Abdul Rauf Masood, Police Chief of Paktika province said the incident took place yesterday (Wednesday) in the Gomal district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Awal Khan, who was imprisoned by the Taliban, has attacked them when the Taliban have gathered to a room for prayers, using their PEKA type weapon (a type of weapon similar to PK machine gun), Police Chief added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">According to Police Chief of Paktia, Awal Khan has brought with him, a ranger car, a rocket launcher, and one PEKA machine gun snatching from the Taliban while escaping.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">However, Zabiullah Mujahid, the spokesperson for the Taliban has rejected the claims of the Police Chief of Paktika about the incident saying that he killed only three Taliban soldiers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Awal Khan is the brother of Dari Khan &#8211; the local police commander, who had been recently taken hostage by the Taliban in Gomal district of Paktia which didn&rsquo;t end well for the hostage takers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The security officials in Paktika province told Salam Watandar that a local police who have been captured by the Taliban as a prisoner escaped the Taliban\u2019s captivity after killing 7 and injuring 18 other of the Taliban. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-77582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}