{"id":14836,"date":"2023-03-20T17:37:59","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T17:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=14836"},"modified":"2023-03-20T17:37:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T17:37:59","slug":"pti-leader-seven-others-killed-in-kp-rocket-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pti-leader-seven-others-killed-in-kp-rocket-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"PTI leader, seven others killed in KP rocket attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PTI leader, seven others killed in KP rocket attack. At least eight people, including Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) District Chairman Atif Jadoon Khan, were killed when unidentified assailants targeted their vehicle with rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) near Havelian, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The attackers ambushed Jadoon\u2019s vehicle near Langra area of Abbottabad District when he, along with seven other people, was on his way home after offering fateha in a nearby village, said the police.<\/p>\n<p>According to the police officials, the incident seemed to be linked to an old enmity.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/plan-was-hatched-to-assassinate-me-inside-judicial-complex-claims-imran-khan.html\">Plan was hatched to assassinate me inside Judicial Complex, claims Imran Khan<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sources privy to the matter said the vehicle was targeted with the RPGs, adding that the vehicle caught fire following the rocket attack.<\/p>\n<p>After being informed, the police and rescue officials rushed to the crime scene and shifted the bodies to the hospital for medicolegal formalities.<\/p>\n<p>It is pertinent to mention here that Jadoon, after winning the election as an independent candidate, had joined the Imran Khan-led PTI.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to the sources\u2019 claim, the police, however, said that the PTI leader was killed in a firing incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTI leader, seven others killed in KP rocket attack. At least eight people, including Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) District Chairman Atif Jadoon Khan, were killed when unidentified assailants targeted their vehicle with rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) near Havelian, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Monday. The attackers ambushed Jadoon\u2019s vehicle near Langra area of Abbottabad District when he, along with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[1387,580,733,194],"class_list":["post-14836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-abbottabad","tag-khyber-pakhtunkhwa","tag-pakistan-tehreek-e-insaf","tag-pti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}