{"id":84122,"date":"2017-02-23T04:35:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T04:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/blast-in-pakistan-kills-eight-people\/"},"modified":"2017-02-23T04:35:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T04:35:52","slug":"blast-in-pakistan-kills-eight-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/blast-in-pakistan-kills-eight-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast in Pakistan kills eight people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2017\/feb\/23\/lahore.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LAHORE (SW): At least eight people were killed and 21 others injured after a blast ripped through an under-construction building in Lahore, Pakistan on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion took place in the particularly affluent Defence Housing Authority suburb of the city. &ldquo;Eight people were killed as a result of the explosion in Lahore&rsquo;s Defence area today,&rdquo; said Punjab Health Minister Khwaja Salman Rafique, adding that forensic teams are working on the case, and are ascertaining facts. &ldquo;It was a bomb attack,&rdquo; Nayab Haider, a spokesperson for the Punjab police was quoted by the Express Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>A day earlier, Pakistan&rsquo;s military announced the launch of a new nationwide military offensive, codenamed Radd-ul-Fasaad (suppressing mischief), with an aim to eliminate remnants of terrorists, following a sharp spike in terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan has been hit by a series of suicide bomb attacks in recent days, claiming more than 100 lives.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE (SW): At least eight people were killed and 21 others injured after a blast ripped through an under-construction building in Lahore, Pakistan on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-84122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84122","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=84122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}