{"id":63276,"date":"2018-10-18T15:49:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T13:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/10\/18\/top-afghan-police-chief-killed-in-kandahar-shooting\/"},"modified":"2018-10-18T15:49:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T13:49:03","slug":"top-afghan-police-chief-killed-in-kandahar-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=63276","title":{"rendered":"Top Afghan police chief killed in Kandahar shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban claim responsibility for killing General Abdul Raziq inside governor\u2019s compound The most important power broker in southern Afghanistan has been shot dead just days before parliamentary elections, along with at least one other top official, leaving a gaping power vacuum in the Taliban\u2019s birthplace.A bodyguard opened fire at a top level meeting in Kandahar province on Thursday, killing the head of police Abdul Raziq, and the province\u2019s spy chief. The Kandahar governor Zalmai Wesa was also shot. His condition was unclear. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/oct\/18\/top-afghanistan-police-chief-abdul-raziq-killed-in-kandahar-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">Top Afghan police chief killed in Kandahar shooting<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban claim responsibility for killing General Abdul Raziq inside governor\u2019s compound The most important power broker in southern Afghanistan has been shot dead just days before parliamentary elections, along with at least one other top official, leaving a gaping power vacuum in the Taliban\u2019s birthplace.A bodyguard opened fire at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}