{"id":10030,"date":"2013-09-05T18:22:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T18:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10030"},"modified":"2013-09-05T18:22:44","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T18:22:44","slug":"female-indian-author-shot-dead-by-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10030","title":{"rendered":"Female Indian author shot dead by Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10031\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10031\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sushmitabanerjee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10031\" alt=\"Sushmita Banerjee\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sushmitabanerjee-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sushmitabanerjee-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sushmitabanerjee.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10031\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sushmita Banerjee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Suspected Taliban militants shot dead the Indian author Sushmita Banerjee, writer of a popular book about her dramatic escape from the Taliban in the 90s, in eastern Afghan province of Paktika on Wednesday night, police said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We found her bullet riddled body near Madrassa on the outskirts of Sharan city (provincial capital) this morning,&#8221; provincial police chief Dawlat Khan Zadran told AFP, confirming earlier reports from Indian media. &#8211; AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspected Taliban militants shot dead the Indian author Sushmita Banerjee, writer of a popular book about her dramatic escape from the Taliban in the 90s, in eastern Afghan province of Paktika on Wednesday night, police said on Thursday. &#8220;We found her bullet riddled body near Madrassa on the outskirts of Sharan city (provincial capital) this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10030\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Female Indian author shot dead by Taliban&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422,3],"tags":[5856,5857,5855,52],"class_list":["post-10030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-culture","category-news","tag-dead","tag-madrassa","tag-sushmita-banerjee","tag-taliban"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sushmitabanerjee.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10032,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030\/revisions\/10032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}