{"id":83048,"date":"2016-10-16T09:09:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T09:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/president-directs-officials-to-make-information-available\/"},"modified":"2016-10-16T09:09:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T09:09:42","slug":"president-directs-officials-to-make-information-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/president-directs-officials-to-make-information-available\/","title":{"rendered":"President directs officials to make information available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/10 October\/16 Oct\/afghan-media-reporters-journalists.jpg\" width=\"760\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has directed spokesmen for various ministries and departments to ensure availability of accurate and timely information for the media.<\/p>\n<p>Haroon Chakhansuri, the Presidential spokesman said on Sunday that the President has issued a seven point decree in this regard. He added that the purpose behind this move is to make sure the citizens are well aware about the government&rsquo;s activities. He added that the spokesmen, mayors, ministers and other officials are bound to provide the journalists with accurate and timely information for the public domain.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The officials, mayors and ministers are bound to brief the press at least once a month about their activities, and these officials should exchange information with their spokesmen for at least 15 minutes a day&rdquo;, he added.<\/p>\n<p>As per the presidential decree, officials have been bound to provide the journalists with at least three mobile phone numbers for contact.<\/p>\n<p>Siddiqullah Tawhidi, representing Nai, a local press freedom organization, welcomed the move. Speaking at the same press conference, he said that this decree would improve the access to information situation. &ldquo;We want swift implementation of this so that the culture of availability of information prevails&rdquo;, he said.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Based on the access to information law signed by President Ghani, people of Afghanistan have the right to access information from state departments.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has directed spokesmen for various ministries and departments to ensure availability of accurate and timely information for the media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-83048","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\/83048","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=83048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}