{"id":83272,"date":"2016-11-09T08:20:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T08:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/analysts-see-no-change-in-us-policy-towards-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2016-11-09T08:20:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T08:20:26","slug":"analysts-see-no-change-in-us-policy-towards-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/analysts-see-no-change-in-us-policy-towards-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysts see no change in US policy towards Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"440\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/11 Novomber\/9  Nov\/Trump 2222.jpg\" width=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): Following surprise triumph of Donald Trump in the US Presidential Elections, a number of Afghan analysts said they do not see a major shift of US policy towards Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican candidate secured 289 electoral votes against the Democrat Hillary Clinton&rsquo;s 218 to become the 45<sup>th<\/sup> US President. Qayoom Sajadi, member of the foreign affairs commission at the Wolesi Jirga (lower house), told Salam Watandar that the US foreign policy towards Afghanistan is not likely to witness a major change regardless of whoever wins. Pointing towards Donald Trump&rsquo;s views on Muslims and minorities in the US, Sajadi added that the incumbent is likely to resolve the differences between the Muslim world and the US.<\/p>\n<p>Firdaws Kawash, another commentator on political affairs, said that Afghanistan&rsquo;s security is essential for the Americans; hence they would not cut down military and civilian aid.<\/p>\n<p>President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah have congratulated Trump on becoming President of the U.S. The Taliban militants, in a message, have urged upon the new U.S. President to recall all American soldiers from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): Following surprise triumph of Donald Trump in the US Presidential Elections, a number of Afghan analysts said they do not see a major shift of US policy towards Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-83272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83272","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=83272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}