{"id":40368,"date":"2013-07-17T12:24:06","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T09:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=40368"},"modified":"2013-07-17T12:24:06","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T09:24:06","slug":"pakistan-frees-3-terrorists-to-secure-release-of-8-abducted-cops-40368","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/pakistan-frees-3-terrorists-to-secure-release-of-8-abducted-cops-40368\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan frees 3 terrorists to secure release of 8 abducted cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_40369\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40369\" style=\"width: 318px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40369\" alt=\"Pakistan police frees three terrorists. \" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pakistan-Release-Terrorists-Nationalturk-17.jpg\" width=\"318\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pakistan-Release-Terrorists-Nationalturk-17.jpg 318w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pakistan-Release-Terrorists-Nationalturk-17-280x140.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pakistan police frees three terrorists.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Police in Pakistan\u2019s Punjab province have freed three terrorists to secure release of eight abducted cops.<\/h1>\n<p>Islamabad, July 17\/Nationalturk \u2013 In a major embarrassment for Pakistan\u2019s security agencies, police in Pakistan\u2019s Punjab province have reportedly freed three terrorists to secure release of eight abducted cops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice released three Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LJ) terrorists in exchange for release of eight policemen abducted by gang of bandit Chotu Mazari in Kacha area of Rajanpur district of Punjab province yesterday morning at an agreed location,\u201d reported Pakistan\u2019s newspaper Express Tribune quoting sources.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper said a lawmaker of ruling PML-N Atif Mazari had struck the deal with Mazari\u2019s aide Patt Umrani.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bandit gang had released three civilian abductees on Monday after receiving Rs 2 million ransom,\u201d sources said.<\/p>\n<h2>Bandits refused to return 12 weapons seized from abducted policemen<\/h2>\n<p>The newspaper said the bandits, however, refused to return 12 weapons they had seized from the policemen after overpowering them in the pickets.<\/p>\n<p>Express Tribune reported that police released three terrorists of banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. The released terrorists were identified as Bashir Bakhrani, Ishaq Changwani and Razzaq Changwani.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper quoted sources as saying that police has also agreed to remove pickets from some river Indus islands, thus giving a freehand to the bandits.<\/p>\n<p>The bandits had overran police pickets on three islands in the Kacha area of Rajanpur, Kacha Karachi, Kachi Jamal and Baggiani on July 7. \u201cThey had abducted at least nine policemen. One of the cop was killed and his body was recovered by the policemen,\u201d a police officer said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Faiz Ahmad \/ NationalTurk Pakistan News<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Pakistan\u2019s Punjab province have freed three terrorists to secure release of eight abducted cops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,1,118,85,101,14],"tags":[55433,55440,55443,55445,55436,43444,55430,55435,55446,55437,55434,55428,636,55429,55442,55439,9030,55041,55438,55447,46066,55444,55432,55441,55431],"class_list":["post-40368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-media-news","category-politics","category-world","tag-abducted-cops","tag-atif-mazari","tag-bandit-gang","tag-bashir-bakhrani","tag-chotu-mazari","tag-express-tribune","tag-freed","tag-gang-of-bandit","tag-ishaq-changwani","tag-kacha-area","tag-lashkar-i-jhangvi-lj-terrorists","tag-major-embarrassment","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistans-security-agencies","tag-patt-umrani","tag-pml-n-lawmaker","tag-police","tag-punjab-province","tag-rajanpur-district","tag-razzaq-changwani","tag-refused","tag-return-12-weapons","tag-secure-release","tag-struck-deal","tag-three-terrorists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}