{"id":13717,"date":"2025-10-10T01:07:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T20:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=13717"},"modified":"2025-10-10T01:07:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T20:37:51","slug":"salim-pegir-seriously-injured-in-armed-attack-in-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/salim-pegir-seriously-injured-in-armed-attack-in-kabul\/","title":{"rendered":"Salim Pegir seriously injured in armed attack in Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13723\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/salim-talibedde.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/salim-talibedde.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/salim-talibedde-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/salim-talibedde-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/salim-talibedde-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/salim-talibedde-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Salim Pegir seriously injured in armed attack in Kabul.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Local sources reported that Salim Pegir, the head of the \u201cIntellectual Alliance of Afghanistan\u201d party, was attacked by two unknown individuals at his home in Kabul on Thursday morning ( 9 October 2025).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>According to Pegir\u2019s family members, the attackers introduced themselves as travelers from Canada and shot him as he was saying goodbye. One of the attackers was detained by neighbors.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Sources say Mr. Pegir is in critical condition and is on a ventilator.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Taliban officials have attributed the incident to \u201cpersonal motives.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Salim Pegir is a well-known political figure who remained in Afghanistan after the Taliban returned and occasionally appeared in the media to criticize the group\u2019s policies.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salim Pegir seriously injured in armed attack in Kabul. Local sources reported that Salim Pegir, the head of the \u201cIntellectual Alliance of Afghanistan\u201d party, was attacked by two unknown individuals at his home in Kabul on Thursday morning ( 9 October 2025). According to Pegir\u2019s family members, the attackers introduced themselves as travelers from Canada [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13725,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13717\/revisions\/13725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}