{"id":351442,"date":"2018-03-09T13:03:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T12:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-offers-5-million-reward-for-pakistan-taliban-leader\/"},"modified":"2018-03-09T13:03:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T12:03:57","slug":"presstv-us-offers-5-million-reward-for-pakistan-taliban-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-offers-5-million-reward-for-pakistan-taliban-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US offers $5 million reward for Pakistan Taliban leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US has announced it will pay a $5 million reward to anyone who assists in the finding of the leader of Pakistan\u2019s Taliban, and has offered $3 million for two other militants from other terrorist groups.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US State Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/r\/pa\/prs\/ps\/2018\/03\/279123.htm\">posted the reward<\/a> on Thursday for information leading to Maulana Fazlullah, the head of the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan militant group (TTP), also known as the Pakistani Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>It also offered $3 million each for two other militants associated with the TTP: Abdul Wali, leader of Jamaat ul-Ahrar, and Mangal Bagh, the leader of Lashkar-e-Islam.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department said the TTP has &#8220;demonstrated a close alliance with al-Qaeda&#8221; and the three pose a threat to the security of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach of these individuals is believed to have committed, or to pose a significant risk of committing, acts of terrorism that threaten the security of the United States and its nationals,\u201d the department said in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/03\/09\/554867\/Pakistan-Taliban-militant-reward-state-department\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has announced it will pay a $5 million reward to anyone who assists in the finding of the leader of Pakistan\u2019s Taliban, and has offered $3 million for two other militants from other terrorist groups. The US State Department posted the reward on Thursday for information leading to Maulana Fazlullah, the head of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-351442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351442","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=351442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}