{"id":84432,"date":"2017-04-02T09:38:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T09:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/wj-yet-to-deliberate-on-the-amendment-of-population-census-law\/"},"modified":"2017-04-02T09:38:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T09:38:18","slug":"wj-yet-to-deliberate-on-the-amendment-of-population-census-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wj-yet-to-deliberate-on-the-amendment-of-population-census-law\/","title":{"rendered":"WJ yet to deliberate on the amendment of Population Census Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2017\/April\/02\/Ghani.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): It has been one month since the amendment of Article 6 of Population Census Law, but the Law is not sent for the approval of the Wolesi Jirga (WJ).<\/p>\n<p>Legal experts believe that the government is delaying the Law for the approval of the WJ. Faiz Mohammad Zaland, a legal expert, has said the government wants to delay the approval of the amended article in the Law so that the distribution of biometric&nbsp;identification cards (e-Tazkira) is delayed resulting in postponement of the elections. He further said some government officials want to delay the distribution of the e-Tazkiras while the Population Registration Directorate (PRD) is strongly influenced by ethnic politics.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Nazir Ahmadzai, the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> deputy speaker of the WJ, said next week the amended Law will be dispatched to the WJ for approval or rejection.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Shah Hussein Murtazawi, deputy presidential spokesman, said today that the proposed amendment in the Law will soon be sent to WJ.<\/p>\n<p>Last month,&nbsp;President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani in a cabinet meeting approved the amended draft of the Census Law authorizing the printing of the word &ldquo;Afghan&rdquo; on the electronic ID cards as well as the ethnicity of the holder on the card. This issue kept the rolling out of the new cards in limbo so far.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): It has been one month since the amendment of Article 6 of Population Census Law, but the Law is not sent for the approval of the Wolesi Jirga (WJ). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-84432","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\/84432","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=84432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}