{"id":57100,"date":"2023-07-30T23:43:46","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T14:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/30\/pakistan-explosion-political-event-khyber-pakhtunkhwa-province"},"modified":"2023-07-31T09:26:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T00:26:54","slug":"at-least-40-people-killed-in-blast-at-political-event-in-pakistan-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57100","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan police suspect Islamic State in bomb blast that killed at least 44"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 200 injured at gathering of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party ahead of elections expected later this year<\/p>\n<p>At least 44 people have been killed and almost 200 injured in a bomb blast in Pakistan\u2019s north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that targeted a political party gathering.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the explosion at a rally on Sunday afternoon for the conservative Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party (JUI-F), a government coalition partner, was carried out by a suicide bomber who detonated his explosives vest close to the stage where several senior leaders of the party were sitting.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/30\/pakistan-explosion-political-event-khyber-pakhtunkhwa-province\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 200 injured at gathering of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party ahead of elections expected later this yearAt least 44 people have been killed and almost 200 injured in a bomb blast in Pakistan\u2019s north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that targeted a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pakistan","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\/57100","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57109,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57100\/revisions\/57109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}