{"id":52447,"date":"2014-07-17T08:54:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T05:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=52447"},"modified":"2014-07-17T08:54:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T05:54:42","slug":"police-battling-al-qaeda-militants-in-pakistan-pms-home-town-52447","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/police-battling-al-qaeda-militants-in-pakistan-pms-home-town-52447\/","title":{"rendered":"Police battling Al Qaeda militants in Pakistan PM\u2019s home town"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_52448\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52448\" style=\"width: 455px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-52448  \" alt=\"Pakistan soldiers maintaining vigil. File pic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Pakistan-Army-Soldiers-Nationalturk-17.jpg\" width=\"455\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Pakistan-Army-Soldiers-Nationalturk-17.jpg 562w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Pakistan-Army-Soldiers-Nationalturk-17-280x179.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pakistan soldiers maintaining vigil. File pic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Pakistani security forces\u00a0 are involved in gunfight with Al Qaeda militants in country\u2019s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif\u2019s home town Raiwind in Punjab province.<\/h1>\n<p>Islamabad, July 17\/Nationalturk \u2013 Pakistani police and security men are battling against Al Qaeda militants holed up in a house in country\u2019s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif\u2019s home town Raiwind in Punjab province.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the wee hours today, police and security men laid siege around a house in\u00a0 Arayian village on Raiwind Road, a town in the outskirts of Lahore on a tip-off regarding the presence of local and foreign militants there,\u201d a police official said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the\u00a0 militants \u00a0present in a house fired on the security men when they were encircling the house.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fire was returned by the security men triggering an encounter, which was going on. The militants lobbed grenades and fired at least three rockets towards the positions of security forces,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Siege tightened to prevent militants from escaping\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>The official said additional security men have been rushed to the area to tighten the siege and prevent militants from escaping from the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have information \u00a0that local and foreign militants affiliated with Al Qaeda are holed in the house,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said a policeman was killed and five others injured in the gunfight so far.<\/p>\n<p>Unconfirmed reports said that seven militants have been killed in the firefight so far.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe exact figure of militants present the house could not be established,\u201d officials said adding all the roads leading to the area where the militants are hiding have been blocked and area is cordoned off.<\/p>\n<p>The locals said the building was taken on rent by a person few months back.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has his residence in Raiwind.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Asia News \/ NationalTurk Pakistan News<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani security forces  are involved in gunfight with Al Qaeda militants in country\u2019s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif\u2019s home town Raiwind in Punjab province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,1,118,101,14],"tags":[2815,70574,13982,10265,44685,636,23297,71504,55041,52179,49004],"class_list":["post-52447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-politics","category-world","tag-al-qaeda","tag-foreign-militants","tag-lahore","tag-militants","tag-nawaz-sharif","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistan-prime-minister","tag-pakistani-police","tag-punjab-province","tag-raiwind","tag-rockets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52447","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=52447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}