{"id":82268,"date":"2016-06-20T05:56:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T05:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/wj-approves-stanekzai-and-habibi-as-nds-chief-and-defense-minister\/"},"modified":"2016-06-20T05:56:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T05:56:00","slug":"wj-approves-stanekzai-and-habibi-as-nds-chief-and-defense-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wj-approves-stanekzai-and-habibi-as-nds-chief-and-defense-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"WJ approves Stanekzai and Habibi as NDS chief and defense minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"370\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/6 June\/20  Jun\/istankzai.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): Wolesi Jirga (lower house) approved Masoom Stanekzai as the chief of National Directorate of Security (NDS) and Abdullah Khan Habibi as the minister of defense on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Stanekzai received 161 votes out of 224 lawmakers available during today&rsquo;s session while Habibi received 167 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Zaman Sangari also won 137 votes as a member of the High Council of the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Before the voting process, Masoom Stanekzai said that he would spare no efforts to improve security in the country if he could win enough votes as the NDS chief.<\/p>\n<p>He said that he would expand the role of technology in ensuring security in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Abdullah Habibi said that if he could win enough votes, he would intensify night operations against the militants.<\/p>\n<p>As the fate of Ministry of Defense and NDS is decided now, different parts of the country witnessed suicide attacks today.<\/p>\n<p>A suicide attack targeted a minibus carrying Nepali security guards in Kabul and hours later another explosion took place in Chehlsutun area in the capital city.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in northern province Badakhshan, an explosive-laden motorbike was detonated in Kishm district which left 9 dead and 30 more injured.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wolesi Jirga (lower house) approved Masoom Stanekzai as the chief of National Directorate of Security (NDS) and Abdullah Khan Habibi as the minister of defense on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-82268","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\/82268","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=82268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}