{"id":79282,"date":"2018-10-19T09:58:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T09:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/gen-raziq-laid-to-rest-at-shrine-of-the-cloak\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:58:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:58:27","slug":"gen-raziq-laid-to-rest-at-shrine-of-the-cloak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/gen-raziq-laid-to-rest-at-shrine-of-the-cloak\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen. Raziq laid to rest at Shrine of the Cloak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2018\/October\/19\/\u0631\u0627\u0632\u0642 \u06f2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>KANDAHAR (SW) &ndash; Gen. Abdul Raziq, the slain police chief for Kandahar province, was laid to rest on Friday at the Shrine of the Cloak in Kandahar city.<\/p>\n<p>A number of military and civilian leaders attended the funeral ceremony of Gen. Raziq. Speaking on the occasion, Gul Agha Sherzai, minister for Frontier and Tribal Affairs, said Gen. Raziq was a brave patriot, and no Afghan can forget his services to the nation. Haji Agha Lalay Dastgiri, deputy governor of Kandahar, pronounced the deadly shooting in the city that claim Raziq&rsquo;s life as an unforgettable incident. He hailed the services of the slain police chief.<\/p>\n<p>Wrapped in the tri-colour national flag, the coffin of Gen. Raziq was marched to the Shrine of the Cloak with full military protocol.<\/p>\n<p>Hailing the bravery of Gen. Raziq, the chairman of Kandahar provincial council, Syed Jan Khakrezwal, said finding a replacement for the slain leader would be very difficult. Local elders, youth and religious figures also spoke about the sacrifice and patriotism of Gen. Raziq, and paid tribute to him.<\/p>\n<p>The killing of Gen. Raziq has met with an outpouring of condolences and tribute to the longstanding icon of resilience in the south of the country.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANDAHAR (SW) \u2013 Gen. Abdul Raziq, the slain police chief for Kandahar province, was laid to rest on Friday at the Shrine of the Cloak in Kandahar city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-79282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79282","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=79282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}