{"id":18963,"date":"2023-08-31T23:11:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T18:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=18963"},"modified":"2023-08-31T23:11:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T18:11:25","slug":"nine-soldiers-martyred-in-bannu-suicide-bombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/nine-soldiers-martyred-in-bannu-suicide-bombing\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine soldiers martyred in Bannu suicide bombing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least nine soldiers were martyred when a suicide bomber riding a motorcycle blew himself up on a military convoy in the general area Jani Khel of Bannu District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), a statement issued by the military\u2019s media wing said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Among the nine soldiers included Naib Subedar Sanobar Ali, while five troops were injured in the attack, according to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe area has been cordoned by security forces and sanitisation is being carried out to eliminate any terrorists found in the area,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>The army\u2019s information wing also vowed that the security forces are \u201cdetermined to eliminate the menace of terrorism\u201d and that the \u201csacrifices\u201d of the \u201cbrave soldiers further strengthen\u201d the military\u2019s resolve.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the terrorist incident, Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar said that he was &#8220;heartbroken&#8221; by the loss of nine &#8220;valiant soldiers&#8221; to a cowardly terrorist act that injured many.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Such acts are utterly reprehensible. My thoughts are with the families of the martyred and injured. Pakistan stands resolute against such terror,&#8221; the interim premier added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least nine soldiers were martyred when a suicide bomber riding a motorcycle blew himself up on a military convoy in the general area Jani Khel of Bannu District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), a statement issued by the military\u2019s media wing said on Thursday. Among the nine soldiers included Naib Subedar Sanobar Ali, while five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[755,457],"class_list":["post-18963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-bannu","tag-ispr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18963","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=18963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}