{"id":78150,"date":"2018-05-07T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/call-for-persian-anthem-renaming-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:45:01","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:45:01","slug":"call-for-persian-anthem-renaming-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/call-for-persian-anthem-renaming-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Persian anthem, renaming Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2018\/5- May\/7\/e-ID-card-sample.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): A number of political activists and members of the Wolesi Jirga (lower house) on Monday asserted &lsquo;imposing&rsquo; an ethnic identity on others would destabilize the country.<\/p>\n<p>Hafez Mansur, a member of the house, said while addressing the gathering the name of Afghanistan should be changed to &lsquo;Khorasan&rsquo; and the national anthem be changed from Pashto to Persian, and currency from afghani to &lsquo;pesa&rsquo;. He went on to urge the Chief Executive Officer of the National Unity Government to roll-out identity cards for the &lsquo;Khorasan&rsquo;.<\/p>\n<p>This member of the WJ&nbsp;said national unity is not possible, and imposing one&rsquo;s identity on others is a clear violation of the Constitution and the Holy Quran.<\/p>\n<p>At the end, a resolution was adopted that criticized the presidential palace for rolling-out of the biometric identity cards amid armed clashes and political differences across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The moot stressed the identity cards should be distributed in line with the parliament&rsquo;s resolution adopted four years ago. The participants vowed to go ahead with protests if their demands are not met.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): A number of political activists and members of the Wolesi Jirga (lower house) on Monday asserted \u2018imposing\u2019 an ethnic identity on others would destabilize the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-78150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78150","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=78150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}