{"id":7580,"date":"2026-02-23T08:45:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T08:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/23\/10-workers-kidnapped-armed-attacks-balochistan-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T08:45:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T08:45:23","slug":"10-workers-kidnapped-armed-attacks-balochistan-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/23\/10-workers-kidnapped-armed-attacks-balochistan-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Around 10 Workers Kidnapped in Armed Attacks in Pakistan&#8217;s Balochistan Province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani media have reported that unknown armed men last night attacked a police station and a construction company in the Barkhan and Khuzdar districts of Balochistan province, kidnapping around 10 workers.<\/p>\n<p>According to these reports, in Barkhan district, gunfire was first directed at a police station and then at a construction company, resulting in four workers being abducted. Additionally, in a separate incident, six more workers were kidnapped from another area.<\/p>\n<p>It is said that the kidnapped individuals are residents of Musakhail and Sindh province in Pakistan. So far, Pakistani security officials and no armed groups have claimed responsibility for these incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Balochistan province, located in southwest Pakistan, has witnessed armed attacks and sporadic insecurity in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 10 workers were kidnapped during armed attacks on a police station and construction company in Pakistan&#8217;s Balochistan province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7580","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\/7580","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=7580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}