{"id":51257,"date":"2022-12-19T19:38:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T10:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/19\/taliban-prisoners-in-pakistan-overpower-guards-and-take-hostages"},"modified":"2022-12-19T19:38:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T10:38:55","slug":"taliban-prisoners-in-pakistan-overpower-guards-and-take-hostages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51257","title":{"rendered":"Taliban prisoners in Pakistan overpower guards and take hostages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Counter-terrorism officer killed after militants seize compound in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province<\/p>\n<p>Taliban detainees overpowered their guards at a counter-terrorism centre in north-western Pakistan overnight, snatching police weapons, taking hostages and seizing control of the facility.<\/p>\n<p>The incident quickly evolved into a standoff. Pakistani officials later confirmed that one counter-terrorism officer had been killed during the militants\u2019 takeover at the detention centre in Bannu, a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and part of a former tribal region.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/19\/taliban-prisoners-in-pakistan-overpower-guards-and-take-hostages\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counter-terrorism officer killed after militants seize compound in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinceTaliban detainees overpowered their guards at a counter-terrorism centre in north-western Pakistan overnight, snatching police weapons, taking hostages and se&#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":[46,60,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51257","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=51257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51258,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51257\/revisions\/51258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}