{"id":286416,"date":"2018-05-06T20:04:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T14:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=286416"},"modified":"2018-05-06T20:04:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T14:34:11","slug":"seven-indian-engineers-kidnapped-in-afghanistans-baghlan-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/seven-indian-engineers-kidnapped-in-afghanistans-baghlan-province\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Indian engineers kidnapped in Afghanistan\u2019s Baghlan Province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/terrorists.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-280556 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/terrorists-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Representative image\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-id=\"280556\" \/><\/a>Seven Indian engineers and an Afghan national (driver of minibus) working for a national power plant (Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat) were reportedly abducted on May 6 in northern Baghlan Province of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey were abducted by unknown gunmen while they were travelling to a government-run power station in a minibus,\u201d confirmed Zabihullah Shuja, spokesman for Baghlan police.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two officials at the Indian embassy in Kabul confirmed have confirmed the kidnapping of seven Indian engineers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Foreign Ministry spokesperson said, &#8220;We are aware of the abduction of Indian nationals from Baghlan Province in Afghanistan. We are in contact with the Afghan authorities and further details are being ascertained.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No terror outfit has yet taken responsibility for the abduction. Earlier kidnappings in Afghanistan have been linked to the Taliban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven Indian engineers and an Afghan national (driver of minibus) working for a national power plant (Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat) were reportedly abducted on May 6 in northern Baghlan Province of Afghanistan. \u201cThey were abducted by unknown gunmen while they were travelling to a government-run power station in a minibus,\u201d confirmed Zabihullah Shuja, spokesman for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":280556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,53],"tags":[428,1295,1296],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}