{"id":53707,"date":"2024-02-10T20:12:12","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T16:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=53707"},"modified":"2024-02-10T20:12:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T16:42:12","slug":"security-officer-dies-after-shots-fired-at-polling-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/53707\/security-officer-dies-after-shots-fired-at-polling-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Security officer dies after shots fired at &#8216;polling station&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The officer was killed on Thursday morning in the Tank area of Pakistan&#8217;s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region, according to local police officials, Sky News reports.<\/p>\n<p>The incident reportedly took place at a polling station in the town of Kot Azam, according to the news agency Reuters, quoting local media.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as people have begun casting their ballots in the country&#8217;s highly-charged election &#8211; the build-up to which has been marred by violence and claims of fraud.<\/p>\n<p>On the eve of Thursday&#8217;s election, bombs struck two political offices in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 30 people.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of police and paramilitary forces have been deployed at polling stations to ensure security.<\/p>\n<p>Mobile phone service has also been suspended across the country in what the government has described as a &#8220;security measure&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>MNA\/PR<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The officer was killed on Thursday morning in the Tank area of Pakistan&#8217;s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region, according to local police officials, Sky News reports. The incident reportedly took place at a polling station in the town of Kot Azam, according to the news agency Reuters, quoting local media. It comes as people have begun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7103,7100,7110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accidents-en","category-international-en","category-politic-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}