{"id":8456,"date":"2022-02-15T21:57:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T21:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=8456"},"modified":"2022-02-15T21:57:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T21:57:51","slug":"pakistan-fires-mortar-shells-at-afghanistans-kunar-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2022\/02\/pakistan-fires-mortar-shells-at-afghanistans-kunar-province\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan fires mortar shells at Afghanistan&#8217;s Kunar province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ASSADABAD (SW) &#8211; Local sources in Kunar have confirmed that Pakistani forces have fired mortar shells at part of this province a day earlier.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Local sources in Kunar say Pakistani troops have launched the attack on the Sarkano district of the province in the afternoon. According to sources, the attacks continued until late tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Bashir Ahmad, a resident of Sarkano district, told Salam Watandar that some rockets had hit people&#8217;s homes and that a number of families had fled to save their lives. He added, however, that it was not yet clear whether anyone had been injured in the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Local officials in Kunar also confirmed the Pakistani military&#8217;s rocket attacks on Sarkano district of the province. Najibullah Hanif, Kunar&#8217;s director of information and culture, said there was no immediate information on casualties or damage from the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Islamic Emirate officials have not yet commented on the Pakistani military&#8217;s attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistani military rocket attacks on the Afghanistan&#8217;s remote districts near the disputed Durand Line are not unprecedented. Pakistan&#8217;s military has carried out rocket attacks on a number of Kunar districts over the years, resulting in more casualties in addition to financial losses.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASSADABAD (SW) &#8211; Local sources in Kunar have confirmed that Pakistani forces have fired mortar shells at part of this province a day earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18,200,5,8,4,6,7,178],"tags":[12,177,564,725],"class_list":["post-8456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security_","category-peace","category-democracy-human-rights","category-politics_","category-governance","category-news_","category-afghanistan","category-headline","category-pakistan","tag-afghanistan","tag-pakistan","tag-kunar","tag-durand-line"],"views":460,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}