{"id":8613,"date":"2025-05-26T18:04:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T18:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=8613"},"modified":"2025-05-26T18:04:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T18:04:32","slug":"two-polio-workers-kidnapped-in-k-ps-tank-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=8613","title":{"rendered":"Two polio workers kidnapped in K-P&#8217;s Tank district"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Two polio workers were abducted by armed assailants in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa&#8217;s Tank district on Monday, during an ongoing anti-polio vaccination campaign.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the victims were identified as Sifatullah, (COMNet Staff), and Hizbullah, a volunteer polio worker. They were carrying out their duties when the incident took place in the tribal subdivision of Jandola.<\/p>\n<p>The district administration condemned the abduction and a case has been registered against unknown perpetrators. A search operation has been launched to locate and safely recover the kidnapped workers.<\/p>\n<p>The abduction and attacks on polio workers are grave concerns, particularly in the tribal areas of Pakistan. Polio workers and their security escorts have frequently been targeted, especially in K-P and Balochistan.<\/p>\n<p>Also Read: Two Levies personnel martyred in attack on polio team in Mastung<\/p>\n<p>In 2024 alone, at least 20 people were killed and 53 others injured in similar incidents during polio vaccination drives in K-P.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two polio workers were abducted by armed assailants in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa&#8217;s Tank district on Monday, during an ongoing anti-polio vaccination campaign. According to police, the victims were identified as Sifatullah, (COMNet Staff), and Hizbullah, a volunteer polio worker. They were carrying out their duties when the incident took place in the tribal subdivision of Jandola. The [&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-8613","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\/8613","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=8613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}