{"id":2546,"date":"2008-02-27T14:23:01","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T14:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/afghan-minister-survives-assassination\/2546\/"},"modified":"2008-02-27T14:23:01","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T14:23:01","slug":"afghan-minister-survives-assassination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/afghan-minister-survives-assassination\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan minister survives assassination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\" id=\"ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblBody\"><strong>Afghan Interior Minister Ahmad Moqbel Zarar has survived an assassination attempt by Taliban insurgents, a ministry spokesman says. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Taliban militants ambushed and opened fire on Zarar&#8217;s convoy, as the Afghan minister was on his way to Laghman Province in the eastern part of the country, Press TV correspondents reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Afghan police and Taliban insurgents exchanged fire for some 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Interior Ministry spokesman Zamarai Bashari confirmed the Taliban attempt on Zarar&#8217;s life adding that the minister and his entourage were unharmed.<\/p>\n<p>Bashari did not disclose any information on Taliban casualties, saying a probe has been launched into the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban took responsibility for the attack and claimed the Afghan police had suffered significant casualties.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail.aspx?id=44942&amp;sectionid=351020403\">MD\/HGH\/RE<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan Interior Minister Ahmad Moqbel Zarar has survived an assassination attempt by Taliban insurgents, a ministry spokesman says. Taliban militants ambushed and opened fire on Zarar&#8217;s convoy, as the Afghan minister was on his way to Laghman Province in the eastern part of the country, Press TV correspondents reported Wednesday. Afghan police and Taliban insurgents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}