{"id":324309,"date":"2020-06-29T08:57:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T08:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=324309"},"modified":"2020-06-29T09:02:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T09:02:03","slug":"gunmen-attack-pakistan-stock-exchange-in-karachi-multiple-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/gunmen-attack-pakistan-stock-exchange-in-karachi-multiple-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen attack Pakistan stock exchange in Karachi, Multiple dead"},"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=\"size-full wp-image-324310 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pakistan-stock-exchange.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"690\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/pakistan-stock-exchange.jpg 690w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/pakistan-stock-exchange-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/pakistan-stock-exchange-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/pakistan-stock-exchange-596x420.jpg 596w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/>Four gunmen, who attacked the Pakistani Stock Exchange building in Karachi on Monday morning have been shot dead, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A group of terrorists launched a grenade attack at the main gate of the building and stormed inside after opening indiscriminate firing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the reports, four security guards, and a police sub-inspector were also killed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Police have recovered hand grenades, magazines and other explosive material from the spot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) in a tweet said, \u201cThere was an attack on the PSX compound earlier today. The situation is still unfolding and management, with the help of security forces, is managing the security and controlling the situation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe will issue a more detailed statement in due course once the situation is under control and more details are known. For now firing has stopped and reinforcement are in place,\u201d PSX added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sindh province Governor Imran Ismail condemned the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Strongly condemn the attack on PSX aimed at tarnishing our relentless war on terror. Have instructed the IG &amp; security agencies to ensure that the perpetrators are caught alive &amp; their handlers are accorded exemplary punishments. We shall protect Sindh at all costs,&#8221; Ismail tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four gunmen, who attacked the Pakistani Stock Exchange building in Karachi on Monday morning have been shot dead, police said. A group of terrorists launched a grenade attack at the main gate of the building and stormed inside after opening indiscriminate firing. According to the reports, four security guards, and a police sub-inspector were also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":324310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[13143],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324309"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324309"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324314,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324309\/revisions\/324314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/324310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}