{"id":7965,"date":"2025-05-20T21:04:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T21:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=7965"},"modified":"2025-05-20T21:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T21:04:16","slug":"officials-begin-probe-as-sit-in-against-waziristan-strike-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=7965","title":{"rendered":"Officials begin probe as sit-in against Waziristan strike continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A member of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa cabinet has said that the district administration has started investigation into a mysterious strike on a house in Mir Ali tehsil that killed four children and triggered a protest by local tribesmen.<\/p>\n<p>According to local sources, five people, including a woman, were also injured in the incident which was allegedly caused by ammunition drop by a quad-copter on a house in the Hormus village of Mir Ali. The ages of the deceased children ranged from eight years to just two months.<\/p>\n<p>Locals rushed the injured to the Mir Ali tehsil hospital, where some of the injured are also said to be in critical condition. The incident has triggered a wave of anger and grief, with residents staging a sit-in protest at Mir Ali Chowk since Sunday. The demonstration has drawn tribal elders, youth, and children. Protesters are holding banners and placards bearing slogans such as &#8220;Let Us Live.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Minister Nek Muhammad strongly condemned the incident in a statement issued on social media. &#8220;The blood of innocent children will not go in vain. This is a crime against humanity. We will raise our voice on every forum and make every effort to bring those responsible to justice,&#8221; he stated.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A member of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa cabinet has said that the district administration has started investigation into a mysterious strike on a house in Mir Ali tehsil that killed four children and triggered a protest by local tribesmen. According to local sources, five people, including a woman, were also injured in the incident which was allegedly [&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-7965","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\/7965","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=7965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}