{"id":79376,"date":"2018-11-02T04:47:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T04:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/president-ghani-seeking-re-election\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:59:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:59:35","slug":"president-ghani-seeking-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/president-ghani-seeking-re-election\/","title":{"rendered":"President Ghani seeking re-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"406\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2018\/NOV\/2\/ashraf ghani.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has revealed he is seeking re-election next year to &ldquo;finish the job&rdquo; of bringing to an end the war&nbsp;in the country.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the Bloomberg, Ghani said the Taliban and other terrorist groups are trying &ldquo;to turn our beautiful country into a breeding ground of violence&rdquo;. He added, &quot;We have to pursue peace, a lasting, just and sustainable peace.&quot; About the elections, Ghani said the elections must produce a leader with a mandate to move Afghanistan forward, put an end to the inherited crises of the last 39 years.<\/p>\n<p>This comes amid allegations of concentration of power and individualism levelled against him.<\/p>\n<p>The presidential elections are due in April next year.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has revealed he is seeking re-election next year to \u201cfinish the job\u201d of bringing to an end the war in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-79376","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\/79376","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=79376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}