{"id":77362,"date":"2018-02-20T07:12:03","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T07:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/celebratory-gunfire-after-cricket-victory-irks-kabul-residents\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:34:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:34:52","slug":"celebratory-gunfire-after-cricket-victory-irks-kabul-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/celebratory-gunfire-after-cricket-victory-irks-kabul-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebratory gunfire after cricket victory irks Kabul residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"506\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2018\/2- Feb\/20\/shilik.jpg\" width=\"684\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13.33px; text-align:justify\">KABUL (SW): Residents of Kabul said that in the current situation, the sounds of bullets are&nbsp;daunting and scary, and such acts must be banned and controlled by the government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13.33px; text-align:justify\">According to the residents of the capital, welcoming athletes&rsquo; victory should not be such as to cause concern among residents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13.33px; text-align:justify\">Last night, after the Afghan cricket team defeated Zimbabwe, a number of people in Kabul started &lsquo;happy firing&rsquo; to celebrate the victory of the Afghan team, which caused fear and anxiety among some of the residents of Kabul.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13.33px; text-align:justify\">A number of Kabul residents who didn&rsquo;t hear the news of the victory of Afghan cricket team over Zimbabwe were worried about a possibility of a terrorist attack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13.33px; text-align:justify\">Some residents of the capital told Salam Watandar that while Kabul has poor security situation, aerial gunfire to celebrate is wrong and should be avoided.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13.33px; text-align:justify\">According to some of the residents of Kabul, a number of police forces were also involved in the last night&rsquo;s celebratory gunfire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13.33px; text-align:justify\">These residents call on the security agencies to arrest and interrogate the perpetrators of the last night celebratory gunfire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13.33px; text-align:justify\">Nusrat Rahimi, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior informed that dozens of people have been arrested last night in connection with the &lsquo;aerial firing&rsquo;. However, he rejected the claims of the residents of Kabul that police officers were also among the shooters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13.33px; text-align:justify\">Last night&rsquo;s celebratory gunfire has also been condemned on social media by many citizens and people have called this action, not a &lsquo;celebration&rsquo; but &lsquo;violence&rsquo;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13.33px; text-align:justify\">This is not the first time that the residents of Kabul have welcomed the victory of the national cricket team with the &lsquo;happy firing&rsquo;. The MoI has informed about preventing such incidents many times which does not seem to have been effective so far.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13.33px; text-align:justify\">ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): Residents of Kabul said that in the current situation, the sounds of bullets are\u00a0daunting and scary, and such acts must be banned and controlled by the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-77362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}