{"id":52714,"date":"2023-02-18T07:24:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T22:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/video\/2023\/feb\/17\/pakistani-taliban-launch-attack-on-karachi-police-hq-killing-at-least-three-video"},"modified":"2023-02-18T07:24:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T22:24:02","slug":"pakistani-taliban-launch-attack-on-karachi-police-hq-killing-at-least-three-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52714","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani Taliban launch attack on Karachi police HQ killing at least three \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least three people were killed and a further 18 injured after members of the proscribed Pakistani Taliban (TTP), launched an attack on Karachi&#8217;s police HQ. Karachi is Pakistan\u2019s main commercial hub, with a population of close to 20 million people. Gunshots could be heard echoing for several hours as police worked to clear members of the TTP from the police station. Two of the three men were eventually killed and one blew himself up, as security forces regained control of the building.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/17\/armed-militants-storm-police-headquarters-karachi-pakistan\">At least three killed as Pakistani Taliban militants storm police HQ in Karachi<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/19\/taliban-prisoners-in-pakistan-overpower-guards-and-take-hostages\">Taliban prisoners in Pakistan overpower guards and take hostages<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/video\/2023\/feb\/17\/pakistani-taliban-launch-attack-on-karachi-police-hq-killing-at-least-three-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least three people were killed and a further 18 injured after members of the proscribed Pakistani Taliban (TTP), launched an attack on Karachi&#8217;s police HQ. Karachi is Pakistan\u2019s main commercial hub, with a population of close to 20 million people. G&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[60,61,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52714","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52715,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52714\/revisions\/52715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}