{"id":35239,"date":"2014-12-13T17:28:48","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T09:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=35239"},"modified":"2014-12-13T17:28:48","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T09:28:48","slug":"afghan-police-say-supreme-court-official-shot-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/13\/afghan-police-say-supreme-court-official-shot-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan police say Supreme Court official shot dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5954\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5954\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_102402700.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5954\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_102402700.jpg\" alt=\"Shutterstock photo\" width=\"500\" height=\"352\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shutterstock photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>KABUL, Afghanistan \u2014 Taliban gunmen killed a senior official of Afghanistan&#8217;s Supreme Court early Saturday, police said, the latest insurgent attack targeting the capital as most foreign troops prepare to withdraw from the country at the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>Gunmen shot dead Atiqullah Rawoofi, the head of the secretariat of the Afghan Supreme Court, near his home in Kabul&#8217;s northwestern suburbs, said Farid Afzali, chief of the Kabul police criminal investigation unit. A colleague of Rawoofi, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals, said two men on a motorbike shot Rawoofi as he was walking from his home to his car.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in a text message.<\/p>\n<p>Rawoofi&#8217;s slaying follows the Taliban suicide attack Thursday on a French school that killed a German citizen and wounded others during a play condemning the violence.<\/p>\n<p>In a text message claiming Thursday&#8217;s attack, the Taliban warned that all civil society groups were potential targets.<\/p>\n<p>Taliban militants have concentrated attacks on Kabul in recent weeks ahead of the foreign troop withdrawal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL, Afghanistan \u2014 Taliban gunmen killed a senior official of Afghanistan&#8217;s Supreme Court early Saturday, police said, the latest insurgent &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":5954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-w","mauthors-amir-shah","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35239","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}