{"id":83618,"date":"2016-12-22T07:13:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T07:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/taliban-s-show-of-defiance-in-kunduz\/"},"modified":"2016-12-22T07:13:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T07:13:38","slug":"taliban-s-show-of-defiance-in-kunduz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/taliban-s-show-of-defiance-in-kunduz\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban s show of defiance in Kunduz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"414\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/12 December\/22 Dec\/kUNDUZ 2.jpg\" width=\"552\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>KUNDUZ CITY (SW):&nbsp; In a show of defiance, armed militants associated with the Taliban have held a self-styled military parade in Kunduz province, locals said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Local authorities said that Taliban exhibited their force by parading with vehicles, horses and armored tanks captured from the government forces while the militants&rsquo; military anthems were being played in Kulbat district.<\/p>\n<p>Sayed Mohammad Danish, provincial governor&rsquo;s spokesperson told Salam Watandar that as a result clean-up operations by the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) in the province, the Taliban are forced to the outskirts of Kunduz where they held this show. &ldquo;ANSF does not need to pay attention to a lame Taliban parade&rdquo;, Danish said while adding that the clean-up operation would continue.<\/p>\n<p>Locals however, raised concerns over the Taliban&rsquo;s parade, and said that the Taliban conducted their parade for two hours with light and heavy arms.<\/p>\n<p>Ghulam Rabani, a provincial council member, said that if such parades are not stopped, it can damage the ANSF&rsquo;s reputation and moral.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUNDUZ CITY (SW):\u00a0 In a show of defiance, armed militants associated with the Taliban have held a self-styled military parade in Kunduz province, locals said on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-83618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83618","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=83618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}