{"id":41255,"date":"2022-02-01T03:27:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T18:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/31\/pakistani-priest-shot-killed-police-manhunt"},"modified":"2022-02-01T03:27:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T18:27:09","slug":"pakistani-police-widen-manhunt-after-priest-shot-and-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41255","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani police widen manhunt after priest shot and killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Father William Siraj killed while on his way home after celebrating Sunday Mass in Peshawar while no group claimed responsibility<\/p>\n<p>Pakistani police have widened their manhunt for two unidentified assailants who shot and killed a Christian priest and wounded another the previous day in the country\u2019s north-west.<\/p>\n<p>Father William Siraj, 75, was killed while on his way home after celebrating Sunday mass in the city of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which borders Afghanistan. One of his traveling companions, Father Naeem Patrick, was wounded while a third priest was unharmed in the attack.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/31\/pakistani-priest-shot-killed-police-manhunt\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father William Siraj killed while on his way home after celebrating Sunday Mass in Peshawar while no group claimed responsibilityPakistani police have widened their manhunt for two unidentified assailants who shot and killed a Christian priest and woun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2855,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[370,60,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-pakistan","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2855"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41256,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41255\/revisions\/41256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}