{"id":18515,"date":"2026-07-27T10:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T10:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/27\/afghan-citizen-killed-shooting-khyber-pakhtunkhwa-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T10:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T10:45:18","slug":"afghan-citizen-killed-shooting-khyber-pakhtunkhwa-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/27\/afghan-citizen-killed-shooting-khyber-pakhtunkhwa-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Citizen Killed in Shooting Incident in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani police have reported that an Afghan citizen was killed in a shooting by unidentified individuals in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The victim, identified as Sirtaj, was about 25 years old and lived in the Khan Shirgari village in the Nowshera district. His body was found in agricultural fields near his home. Authorities stated that after completing legal procedures, the body was handed over to his family and transported to Afghanistan for burial. Police officials have not disclosed any details regarding the motive behind the killing and emphasized that investigations are ongoing to identify the perpetrators and clarify the circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Afghan man was shot dead by unknown assailants in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Police investigations are ongoing to find the killers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18515","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=18515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}