{"id":19454,"date":"2018-10-22T18:24:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T18:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19454"},"modified":"2018-10-22T18:24:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T18:24:49","slug":"militants-claim-responsibility-for-iran-troops-abduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19454","title":{"rendered":"Militants claim responsibility for Iran troops abduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1391976\/middle-east\" readability=\"55\">\n<p>\nTEHRAN: A militant group has claimed responsibility for the abduction of 12 Iranian security personnel near the border with Pakistan, Iran\u2019s semi-official news agency ISNA reported Monday.<br \/>\u201cThe terrorist group Jaish Al-Adl (Army of Justice in Arabic) has posted two photos&#8230; claiming that those in it are the forces abducted\u201d on October 16, ISNA said.<br \/>Jaish Al-Adl, formed in 2012, is a successor to the Sunni extremist group Jundallah (Soldiers of God) which has carried out a spate of attacks on Iranian security forces in recent years in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan.<br \/>The photos show seven members of the elite Revolutionary Guards force and five police commandos, all in combat gear, according to state news agency IRNA.<br \/>The Iranians, including intelligence officers, were abducted near Lulakdan, a village 150 kilometers (90 miles) southeast of Zahedan, capital of Sistan-Baluchistan.<br \/>They were \u201cmade unconscious\u201d by a \u201csingle infiltrator\u201d and then kidnapped and taken to bases inside Pakistan, said Guards commander Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, quoted by IRNA.<br \/>The photos also show a haul of automatic weapons and sniper rifles, rocket launchers, machine-guns, grenades and ammunition, apparently seized from the Iranian forces.<br \/>Sistan-Baluchistan has long been a flashpoint, with Pakistan-based Baluchi separatists and militants carrying out regular cross-border raids against Iran.<br \/>The province has a large, mainly Sunni Muslim ethnic Baluchi community which straddles the border.<br \/>A delegation led by the Guards\u2019 ground forces commander Mohammad Pakpour visited Pakistan on Monday to follow up on efforts to free the Iranians, the force said on its website.<br \/>Pakistan said last Wednesday that it has launched \u201cactive\u201d efforts to locate the missing men.<br \/>Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has blamed the kidnapping on \u201cour common enemies unhappy with the existing close, friendly relations between Pakistan and Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: A militant group has claimed responsibility for the abduction of 12 Iranian security personnel near the border with Pakistan, Iran\u2019s semi-official news agency ISNA reported Monday.\u201cThe terrorist group Jaish Al-Adl (Army of Justice in Arabic) has posted two photos&#8230; claiming that those in it are the forces abducted\u201d on October 16, ISNA said.Jaish Al-Adl,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}