{"id":3129,"date":"2015-10-28T10:02:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T10:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=3129"},"modified":"2015-10-28T10:02:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T10:02:34","slug":"seven-pakistani-troops-killed-in-cross-border-fire-from-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/seven-pakistani-troops-killed-in-cross-border-fire-from-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Pakistani troops killed in cross-border fire from Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>At least seven Pakistani soldiers have been killed in Pakistan\u2019s northwestern tribal region in heavy cross-border fire from Afghanistan, the Pakistani military says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Pakistani army said in a statement on Tuesday that the soldiers were killed at a checkpoint near the South Waziristan tribal area\u2019s Angoor Adda.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The statement did not say whether the fire came from Afghan security forces or militants based in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In August, Afghan militants carried out a cross-border rocket attack at a checkpoint in Pakistan\u2019s Khyber tribal region, killing four soldiers and injuring four others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan\u2019s seven tribal regions, located near the country\u2019s border with neighboring Afghanistan, have been dealing with militancy over the past years following the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. Both Pakistan and Afghanistan have been witnessing deadly militant attacks since then.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thousands of Pakistanis have lost their lives in bombings and other militant attacks since Islamabad entered an alliance with the US in the war on terror in 2001.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan has been engaged in a major offensive against militant hideouts across the troubled northwestern tribal regions since June last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least seven Pakistani soldiers have been killed in Pakistan\u2019s northwestern tribal region in heavy cross-border fire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3130,"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":[9,75,15,8,113,10,11],"class_list":["post-3129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-news","tag-afghanistan","tag-conflict","tag-militants","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\/10\/Pak-Afghan-Border-Clashes.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-Ot","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129","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=3129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3131,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129\/revisions\/3131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}