{"id":306000,"date":"2018-11-23T09:35:44","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T09:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306000"},"modified":"2018-11-23T09:35:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T09:35:44","slug":"pakistan-25-killed-in-explosion-in-khyber-pakhtunkhwa-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pakistan-25-killed-in-explosion-in-khyber-pakhtunkhwa-province\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan: 25 killed in explosion in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-306001 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_pakistan-272x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_pakistan-272x300.jpg 272w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_pakistan.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_pakistan-380x420.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At least 25 people were killed and several others injured on Friday in an explosion in Pakistan\u2019s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The blast took place outside a religious seminary in Lower Orakzai area of Hangu, officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The injured were shifted to a health facility for further treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">All hospitals have been put on high alert to provide quality care to the injured.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The area has been cordoned off and investigation into the incident is under way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan strongly condemned the terror attack in Orakzai tribal area and Chinese Consulate in Karachi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cStrongly condemn the terrorist attacks against Chinese Consulate in Karachi &amp; in Orakzai tribal area. My prayers go to the victims &amp; their families. Salute the brave security\/police personnel who gave their lives &amp; denied success to terrorists in the mission ag Chinese Consulate,\u201d Imran Khan tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI am absolutely clear both these attacks are part of a planned campaign to create unrest in the country by those who do not want Pakistan to prosper. Let there be no doubt in anyone&#8217;s mind that we will crush the terrorists, whatever it takes,\u201d Imran Khan added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Khyber Pakhtunkhawa Chief Minister Mehmood Khan condemned the attack and said that the enemies had been unable to tolerate peace in the province. \u201cTo target innocent citizens is inhumane.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 25 people were killed and several others injured on Friday in an explosion in Pakistan\u2019s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The blast took place outside a religious seminary in Lower Orakzai area of Hangu, officials said. The injured were shifted to a health facility for further treatment. All hospitals have been put on high alert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[9843,3867,9841,9844,9842,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306000"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306002,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306000\/revisions\/306002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}