{"id":81652,"date":"2016-03-29T05:24:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T05:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/governor-of-helmand-resigns-from-his-position\/"},"modified":"2016-03-29T05:24:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T05:24:10","slug":"governor-of-helmand-resigns-from-his-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/governor-of-helmand-resigns-from-his-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor of Helmand resigns from his position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/3 March\/29  Mar\/rahimy.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LASHKARGAH (SW): Mirza Khan Rahimi, resigned from his position as the governor of southern Helmand province on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He was appointed as the governor nearly 8 months ago. He previously held the capacity for Head of Security in the capital Kabul and central Ghazni province.<\/p>\n<p>His resignation comes amidst unstable security situation in the province where Taliban have managed to capture a number of northern and southern districts.<\/p>\n<p>He confirmed his resignation while talking to Salam Watandar but said that he would share the details of his resignation to the media soon.<\/p>\n<p>A source close to him told Salam Watandar that the President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani asked the governor to resign and not travel to the province again.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/3 March\/29  Mar\/helmand.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Government&rsquo;s high-ranking officials like Yousuf Noorisitan, Chief of Independent Election Commission and Daud Shah Sabah, Minister of Mines and Petroleum have both recently resigned from their related positions this week.<\/p>\n<p>Rumor has it that the government has sacked a number of security commanders and officials in Helmand since the insecurity has increased but this issue has not been formally announced yet.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mirza Khan Rahimi, resigned from his position as the governor of southern Helmand province on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-81652","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\/81652","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=81652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}