{"id":203,"date":"2009-12-27T23:18:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T23:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/?p=203"},"modified":"2009-12-27T23:18:52","modified_gmt":"2009-12-27T23:18:52","slug":"pakistan-militants-kill-official-and-family-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan militants kill official and family members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Militants in Pakistan have blown up the house of a local official, killing him and five members of his family.<\/strong><br \/>\nSarbraz Saddiqi, a government official in Kurram district, his wife and four children were killed in the attack, a police official said.<br \/>\nSunday morning&#8217;s attack came as the family were asleep.<br \/>\nNo-one has admitted planting the bomb. But the police spokesman said it could be linked to a Pakistan army offensive against the Taliban in the area.<br \/>\nThe army has captured territory in South Waziristan, a hotbed of Islamic militancy, but many insurgents are believed to have fled to nearby regions, including Kurram.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Small children killed<\/strong><br \/>\nThe attack occurred in Mosu Zai village, about 200km (125 miles) from the north-western city of Peshawar.<br \/>\n&#8220;Unknown miscreants planted dynamite around the house and exploded it between 0200 (2100 GMT) and 0300 and the house was destroyed,&#8221; Abab Ali, a local official told AFP news agency.<br \/>\n&#8220;Those killed were aged five to 11,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n&#8220;We don&#8217;t know whether the Taliban, terrorists or Shias were responsible,&#8221; Mr Ali said.<br \/>\nBut police officer Naeemullah Khan said the attack appeared to be linked to the army&#8217;s efforts against the Taliban militants in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Militants in Pakistan have blown up the house of a local official, killing him and five members of his family. Sarbraz Saddiqi, a government official in Kurram district, his wife and four children were killed in the attack, a police official said. Sunday morning&#8217;s attack came as the family were asleep. No-one has admitted planting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}