{"id":25835,"date":"2026-11-11T17:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T17:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/11\/armed-attack-police-convoy-khyber-pakhtunkhwa-five-killed\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T17:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T17:30:18","slug":"armed-attack-police-convoy-khyber-pakhtunkhwa-five-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/11\/armed-attack-police-convoy-khyber-pakhtunkhwa-five-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed Attack on Police Convoy in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Kills Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, November 10, a convoy of Pakistani police forces traveling between Kohat and Karak in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province came under an armed attack. The assailants ambushed the security forces from the highlands of the area, launching a heavy assault. As a result, five police vehicles were set on fire, and five individuals, including Haider Zaman, Deputy Police Chief of Gambat, and Mukhtiar, the senior police officer of the region, were killed.<\/p>\n<p>Following the incident, reinforcements were dispatched to confront the attackers, and an emergency was declared at the central hospital in Kohat. This attack occurred amid reports from Pakistan\u2019s federal cabinet indicating a 195 percent increase in insecurity and attacks against police forces in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has witnessed a significant rise in targeted attacks on law enforcement over the past year, including the September attack on the Kohat police headquarters that left 23 dead. Activities by armed groups opposing the Pakistani government and crackdowns on smuggling and illegal mining in the mountainous regions of the province have posed serious security challenges for the police forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An armed ambush in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, killed five police officers amid rising attacks on law enforcement in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25835","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=25835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}