{"id":79278,"date":"2018-10-19T05:06:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T05:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/wj-elections-postponed-in-kandahar\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:58:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:58:24","slug":"wj-elections-postponed-in-kandahar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wj-elections-postponed-in-kandahar\/","title":{"rendered":"WJ elections postponed in Kandahar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"579\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2018\/October\/19\/\u0627\u0645\u0646\u06cc\u062a \u0634\u0648\u0631\u0627 \u06f2.jpg\" width=\"960\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; The presidential palace, Arg, announced on Friday that forthcoming Wolesi Jirga (lower house) elections have been postponed in Kandahar province for another week.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was taken at a special session of the National Security Council headed by the president, Mohammad Ashraf Ghani. A statement announced that the elections were postponed due to the yesterday&rsquo;s attack that claimed the life of Gen. Abdul Raziq Achakzai, the Kandahar Police Chief.<\/p>\n<p>The new date for polls here would be announced by the Independent Election Commission later, the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>The WJ elections would take place in rest of the country on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Gen. Raziq got killed as a result of shooting inside the compound of Kandahar governor.<\/p>\n<p>Zalmai Wesa, the governor of Kandahar province, got wounded in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 The presidential palace, Arg, announced on Friday that forthcoming Wolesi Jirga (lower house) elections have been postponed in Kandahar province for another week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-79278","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\/79278","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=79278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}