{"id":35108,"date":"2024-05-03T16:48:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T11:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=35108"},"modified":"2024-05-03T16:59:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T11:59:20","slug":"senior-journalist-among-others-dies-in-khuzdar-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/senior-journalist-among-others-dies-in-khuzdar-blast\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior journalist among others dies in Khuzdar blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KHUZDAR: At least three people including senior journalist Maulana Siddique Mengal were killed and nine injured in a remote-controlled explosion on Sultan Ibrahim Road in Balochistan&#8217;s Khuzdar District on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the police, the suspects targeted the vehicle of Khuzdar Press Club president Maulana Siddique Mengal<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> when he was going to university from his home. The injured were shifted to a civil hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Police said that the journalist \u2014 who was associated with a local newspaper \u2014 escaped an assassination attempt a few months ago.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/two-killed-five-including-cops-injured-in-khuzdar-blast\/\">Two killed, five including cops injured in Khuzdar blast<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement agencies have cordoned off the area and started an investigation. Journalists and media organizations are celebrating World Press Freedom Day today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">As Expected , the stick bombs have been activated in Balochistan<br \/>\nJUIF Maulana Siddique Mengal killed in Khuzdar blast<br \/>\n09 others injured in the blast.<\/p>\n<p>P.s. It was a matter of time stick IEDs will make their presence felt in Balochistan soon enough <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NHJgPkhGoB\">pic.twitter.com\/NHJgPkhGoB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lord Leopard (Lutyens&#8217; Wale) (@Leopard212) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Leopard212\/status\/1786333427974766696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The attack on the journalist comes when\u00a0Journalists and media organizations around the world are celebrating <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Press Freedom Day today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Balochistan Home Minister Mir Ziaullah Langau strongly condemned the Khuzdar blast and directed the relevant authorities to present a report.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KHUZDAR: At least three people including senior journalist Maulana Siddique Mengal were killed and nine injured in a remote-controlled explosion on Sultan Ibrahim Road in Balochistan&#8217;s Khuzdar District on Friday. According to the police, the suspects targeted the vehicle of Khuzdar Press Club president Maulana Siddique Mengal when he was going to university from his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":35109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14713,16224,16223],"class_list":["post-35108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-khuzdar-blast","tag-maulana-siddique-mengal","tag-senior-journalist-dies-in-khuzdar-blast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35108","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}