{"id":81562,"date":"2016-03-13T21:41:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T21:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/officials-denying-helmandi-youths-due-credit\/"},"modified":"2016-03-13T21:41:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T21:41:29","slug":"officials-denying-helmandi-youths-due-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/officials-denying-helmandi-youths-due-credit\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials denying Helmandi youths\u2019 due credit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/3 March\/14  Mar\/Hilmand 1.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LASHKARGAH (SW): Civil society in southern Helmand province has blamed the higher security officials for denying the local youth of its due credit.<\/p>\n<p>Sardar Mohammad Hamdard, head of Helmand Civil Society (HCS) told a gathering here on Monday that as many as 150 young men have registered their complaints at the HCS.<\/p>\n<p>He quoted these men saying that though they have passed the test but are not allowed to join the military academy.<\/p>\n<p>Hamdard charged that the local Afghan National Army (ANA) officers have denied hundreds of local youth the right to join the ANA Academy despite impressive results at the entry test.<\/p>\n<p>Agha Mohammad Qureshi, another leader of the HCS, said in this regard that the officials have preferred candidates from other areas<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;over Helmand. He went on to say that deploying cadets from other areas of the country to perform duties in Helmand has led to the growing insecurity in Helmand.<\/p>\n<p>The HCS has vowed to extend the scale of protest if the matter is not resolved.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil society in southern Helmand province has blamed the higher security officials for denying the local youth of its due credit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-81562","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\/81562","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=81562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}