{"id":80814,"date":"2015-11-15T12:17:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T12:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/mj-grill-government-over-delay-in-holding-elections\/"},"modified":"2015-11-15T12:17:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T12:17:17","slug":"mj-grill-government-over-delay-in-holding-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/mj-grill-government-over-delay-in-holding-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"MJ grill government over delay in holding elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): The Masharano Jirga (upper house of the parliament) on Sunday grilled the government for not meeting its promises about holding provincial council and Wolesi Jirga (lower house) elections.<\/p>\n<p>Muhammad Alam Ezidyar, Deputy Speaker of the house urged the government to hold the elections without any further delay. He said the house demands the government to wrap-up the reforms process.<\/p>\n<p>Gul Ahmad Azmi, another member of the house said on the occasion that delaying election undermine democracy and proved the promises rulers made empty.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Gul Mohammad Rasuli, another member said that it was important for the government to revive its trust in the eyes of the international community by holding elections without further delay.<\/p>\n<p>Farida Kochi, a female member of the WJ noted that holding elections under circumstances when a number of districts across the country are facing armed insurgency would be a daunting task. She feared many people would lose their right to vote due to insecurity.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Masharano Jirga (upper house of the parliament) on Sunday grilled the government for not meeting its promises about holding provincial council and Wolesi Jirga (lower house) elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-80814","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\/80814","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=80814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}