{"id":15624,"date":"2026-06-20T13:05:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T13:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/06\/20\/armed-attack-oil-tankers-quetta-taftan-highway-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T13:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T13:05:19","slug":"armed-attack-oil-tankers-quetta-taftan-highway-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/06\/20\/armed-attack-oil-tankers-quetta-taftan-highway-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed Attack on Oil Tankers on Quetta-Taftan Highway in Pakistan&#8217;s Balochistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local sources have reported that armed assailants attacked vehicles carrying oil and gas on the RCD Highway (Quetta\u2013Taftan) near the town of Nushki in Pakistan&#8217;s Balochistan province.<\/p>\n<p>Videos shared on social media show the attackers firing at several vehicles. According to these images, the tires of a number of these transport vehicles were targeted and disabled, preventing their movement.<\/p>\n<p>So far, no details have been released regarding possible casualties from the incident, and the identity of the attackers has not been officially announced.<\/p>\n<p>The Quetta\u2013Taftan Highway is one of the main transit routes in Balochistan province, connecting the city of Quetta to the Iranian border. It holds significant economic importance for the transport of commercial goods, especially oil products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armed assailants attacked oil and gas tankers on Pakistan&#8217;s Quetta-Taftan Highway near Nushki, disrupting transport on this key trade route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}