{"id":82608,"date":"2016-07-31T07:27:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T07:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/protest-over-the-appointment-of-mayor-in-ghazni\/"},"modified":"2016-07-31T07:27:49","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T07:27:49","slug":"protest-over-the-appointment-of-mayor-in-ghazni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/protest-over-the-appointment-of-mayor-in-ghazni\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest over the appointment of mayor in Ghazni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"340\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/7 July\/31 Jul\/ghazni.JPG\" width=\"613\" \/><\/p>\n<p>GHAZNI CITY (SW): Residents in central Ghazni province protested on Sunday against the appointment of Fraidon Ahmadi as the mayor for the provincial capital Ghazni city.<\/p>\n<p>The protestors accused Fraidon Ahmadi of discrimination and corruption. These protestors blocked the Kabul-Kandahar highway for 2 hours, and then marched for some 2km in the city. The protestors blamed Fraidon Ahmadi of having embezzled as much as afn&nbsp;3 billion when he was in-charge of the municipality department in the province.<\/p>\n<p>The protestors went on stating that Amhadi has confiscated thousands of acres of land, and has caused rifts among the different ethnic groups.<\/p>\n<p>Representing the demonstrators, Abdul Jamey, a member to Ghazni Provincial Council, urged the government to address their demands.&nbsp;He added if the government did not pay attention to their demands, they would continue their protest and block the Kabul-Kandahar highway.Jamey&nbsp;said that he has received a phone call from the government that things would be settled by the end of the current week.<\/p>\n<p>Fraidon Ahmadi, on the other hand, told Salam Watandar that the protestors do not represent any ethnic group in Ghazni. &ldquo;They are pursuing the interests of a minor privileged group&rdquo;, he added.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ENDS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents in central Ghazni province protested on Sunday against the appointment of Fraidon Ahmadi as the mayor for the provincial capital Ghazni city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-82608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82608","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=82608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}