{"id":155740,"date":"2018-03-08T22:56:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T03:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=155740"},"modified":"2019-05-26T12:00:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T16:00:12","slug":"us-offers-5m-reward-for-pakistan-taliban-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/08\/us-offers-5m-reward-for-pakistan-taliban-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"US offers $5M reward for Pakistan Taliban leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_145065\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-145065\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/U.S.-Flag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-145065\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/U.S.-Flag.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: U.S. Flag (Pixabay photo)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/U.S.-Flag.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/U.S.-Flag-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/U.S.-Flag-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-145065\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: U.S. Flag (Pixabay Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The State Department has offered a $5 million reward for information on Pakistani Taliban leader Mullah Fazlullah in the latest U.S. effort to pressure militants in the South Asian nation.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came a day after Fazlullah&#8217;s son was reported killed in a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Fazlullah is the leader of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan said to be responsible for numerous terrorist acts against Pakistani and U.S. interests including a failed attempt to detonate an explosive device in New York&#8217;s Times Square in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Fazlullah is also blamed for the 2012 shooting of Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai (mah-LAH&#8217;-lah YOO&#8217;-suhf-zeye), now a Nobel peace laureate.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the department offered Thursday $3 million each for information on two other Pakistani militant leaders, Abdul Wali and Mangal Bagh.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The State Department has offered a $5 million reward for information on Pakistani Taliban leader Mullah Fazlullah in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":145065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24157,17],"tags":[47877,47876,35034,480],"class_list":["post-155740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-american-news","category-news-w","tag-5-million-reward","tag-mullah-fazlullah","tag-pakistani-taliban","tag-taliban","mauthors-matthew-pennington","mauthors-marcela-isaza","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216010,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155740\/revisions\/216010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}