{"id":7324,"date":"2025-05-14T21:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T21:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=7324"},"modified":"2025-05-14T21:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T21:00:07","slug":"call-for-arrest-of-school-van-shooting-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=7324","title":{"rendered":"Call for arrest of school van shooting suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The president of the Private Education Network (PEN) Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), Muhammad Saleem Khan, on Wednesday strongly condemned the recent school van shooting, calling it a brutal, cowardly, and reprehensible act.<\/p>\n<p>He demanded the immediate arrest of the perpetrator and that a case be registered under anti-terrorism laws.<\/p>\n<p>Khan further urged the K-P, Hazara DIG, and Battagram DPO to take swift legal action.<\/p>\n<p>He warned that failure to act would result in widespread protests by private educational institutions from Peshawar to Kohistan. On Tuesday morning, a masked gunman had opened indiscriminate fire on a school van in the outskirts of Battagram, in the village of Pirhadi, leaving five children severely injured.<\/p>\n<p>In a special media briefing, he questioned the fault of the innocent students \u2014 referred to as &#8220;travelers in pursuit of knowledge&#8221; \u2014 who were injured in the attack. Khan said it was cruel that they were targeted due to the van driver&#8217;s personal enmity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We strongly condemn this incident and demand the immediate arrest of the accused, along with a transparent investigation to ensure justice is served,&#8221; he stated.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president of the Private Education Network (PEN) Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), Muhammad Saleem Khan, on Wednesday strongly condemned the recent school van shooting, calling it a brutal, cowardly, and reprehensible act. He demanded the immediate arrest of the perpetrator and that a case be registered under anti-terrorism laws. Khan further urged the K-P, Hazara DIG, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}