{"id":90496,"date":"2014-06-09T16:52:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T12:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=90496"},"modified":"2014-06-09T16:52:55","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T12:52:55","slug":"pakistani-taliban-claims-responsibility-for-karachi-airport-attack-28-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=90496","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani Taliban claims responsibility for Karachi airport attack; 28 dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pakistan-karachi-airport.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-90488\" alt=\"\u054a\u0561\u056f\u056b\u057d\u057f\u0561\u0576\u056b \u0585\u0564\u0561\u0576\u0561\u057e\u0561\u056f\u0561\u0575\u0561\u0576\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pakistan-karachi-airport.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pakistan-karachi-airport.jpg 640w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pakistan-karachi-airport-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pakistan-karachi-airport-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for an hours-long attack at the country&#8217;s largest and busiest airport that killed at least 28 people.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking from an undisclosed location, Pakistani Taliban commander Abdullah Bahar said the attack overnight at Karachi&#8217;s Jinnah International Airport was retaliation for the death of former chief Hakimullah Mehsud.<\/p>\n<p>Bahar warned more attacks will follow.<\/p>\n<p>Late Sunday night, militants armed with guns, grenades and suicide vests stormed the cargo area of the airport.<\/p>\n<p>The attack lasted five hours.<\/p>\n<p>When it was over, 28 people were dead &#8212; including eight members of airport security forces, two Pakistan International Airlines employees and one ranger.<\/p>\n<p>Another 24 people were injured, the military said.<\/p>\n<p>All 10 militants involved in the attack were killed, military spokesman Maj. Gen. Asim Bajwa said. Two of them detonated suicide vests, he said.<\/p>\n<p>A building caught fire in the attack, but no planes were damaged, Bajwa said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for an hours-long attack at the country&#8217;s largest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":90488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}