{"id":809,"date":"2009-09-28T09:58:06","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T14:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2009\/09\/28\/pakistan-army-said-to-be-linked-to-swat-killings\/"},"modified":"2009-09-28T09:58:06","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T14:58:06","slug":"pakistan-army-said-to-be-linked-to-swat-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2009\/09\/28\/pakistan-army-said-to-be-linked-to-swat-killings\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Army Said to Be Linked to Swat Killings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s military operations against the Taliban in Swat, begun in May under public pressure from the United States, has been hailed by Washington as a showcase effort of the army\u2019s newfound resolve to defeat the militants. The American ambassador, Anne W. Patterson, visited Mingora, the biggest town in Swat, last week, becoming the first senior American official to go to Swat since the army took over.Now, concerns over the army\u2019s methods in the area threaten to further taint Washington\u2019s association with the military, cooperation that has been questioned in Congress and has been politically unpopular in Pakistan. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/15\/world\/asia\/15swat.html?_r=1\">Full article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s military operations against the Taliban in Swat, begun in May under public pressure from the United States, has been hailed by Washington as a showcase effort of the army\u2019s newfound resolve to defeat the militants. The American ambassador, Anne W. Patterson, visited Mingora, the biggest town in Swat, last week, becoming the first senior &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2009\/09\/28\/pakistan-army-said-to-be-linked-to-swat-killings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pakistan Army Said to Be Linked to Swat Killings<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}