{"id":2554,"date":"2015-05-29T21:49:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T21:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=2554"},"modified":"2015-05-29T21:49:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T21:49:28","slug":"at-least-2-soldiers-5-militants-killed-in-a-clash-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/at-least-2-soldiers-5-militants-killed-in-a-clash-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 2 soldiers, 5 militants killed in a clash in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>At least two Pakistani soldiers and five suspected militants have been killed in a clash in Pakistan\u2019s northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fighting erupted on Friday when paramilitary forces from the Frontier Corps (FC) ambushed a group of militants in the North Waziristan Agency (NWA)\u2019s Ghulam Khan area, AFP reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe troops ambushed the militants on an intelligence tip-off,\u201d said a senior Afghan security official, adding, \u201cFive militants were killed\u201d in the operation. The official, who was speaking on condition of anonymity, also said two soldiers died in the clash.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier this month, the FC paramilitary forces launched an operation in Awaran district in the southwestern province of Balochistan, in which a militant was killed and two troops were wounded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">North Waziristan, which is one of the country\u2019s seven semi-autonomous tribal districts where militant groups have been hiding, has gone through a fresh wave of violence and militancy over the past few months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Pakistani army launched a major campaign against militant groups in the border region in June 2014. The move followed a deadly raid on Pakistan\u2019s major airport in the south, the Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, on June 8. More than two dozen people died in the militant attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least two Pakistani soldiers and five suspected militants have been killed in a clash in Pakistan\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[124,1],"tags":[9,137,15,5,8,113,10],"class_list":["post-2554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-news","tag-afghanistan","tag-asia","tag-militants","tag-military","tag-pakistan","tag-security","tag-taliban"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Pakistan-Security-Forces-Operation-Against-Terrorists.jpg?fit=650%2C345&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-Fc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2555,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions\/2555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}