{"id":2957,"date":"2015-10-01T19:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T19:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=2957"},"modified":"2015-10-01T19:00:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T19:00:26","slug":"pakistan-army-airstrikes-kill-25-militants-near-afghan-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/pakistan-army-airstrikes-kill-25-militants-near-afghan-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan army airstrikes kill 25 militants near Afghan border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>At least 25 militants have been killed in\u00a0army \u00a0in northwestern Pakistan, according to the country\u2019s armed forces.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The strikes were conducted close to the Datta Khel area of the North Waziristan tribal region on the border with neighboring Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Twenty-five terrorists were killed in precise aerial strikes today,&#8221; said a statement by the military released on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The\u00a0airstrikes were conducted as part of a major operation against pro-Taliban militants and other insurgents, the statement further read.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Pakistani army has been waging a full-scale operation against militant hideouts in North Waziristan\u00a0since June last year, when\u00a0a deadly raid on the Karachi International Airport ended the government\u2019s faltering peace talks with the pro-Taliban militants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the Pakistani military officials, at least 3,000 militants have so far been killed in the army offensive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the Pakistani Interior Ministry, more than 60,000 people have also lost their lives in\u00a0the wave of violence and militancy sweeping across the country over\u00a0the past years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tribal regions on Pakistan\u2019s border with Afghanistan are\u00a0a hideout for militant groups. Pro-Taliban militants use the mountainous border areas to launch attacks in both countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 25 militants have been killed in\u00a0army \u00a0in northwestern Pakistan, according to the country\u2019s armed forces. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2011,"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":[9,16,5,8,113,10,11],"class_list":["post-2957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-news","tag-afghanistan","tag-airstrike","tag-military","tag-pakistan","tag-security","tag-taliban","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Pakistan-Air-Force-Fighter-Jet.jpg?fit=690%2C380&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-LH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957","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=2957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2958,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957\/revisions\/2958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}