{"id":85704,"date":"2017-09-01T06:59:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T06:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/ghani-ready-to-engage-in-comprehensive-political-dialogue-with-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2017-09-01T06:59:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T06:59:56","slug":"ghani-ready-to-engage-in-comprehensive-political-dialogue-with-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/ghani-ready-to-engage-in-comprehensive-political-dialogue-with-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghani: Ready to engage in comprehensive political dialogue with Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2017\/26\/ghaani.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): In his Eid Day message, Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has expressed willingness to engage in political dialogue with Pakistan for peace in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a gathering at the Arg (Presidential Palace) on Friday in connection with the Islamic holy festival of Eid-ul-Adha, Ghani renewed calls for peace with the Taliban, and for resuming political dialogue with Pakistan to overcome the differences. &ldquo;From here, I have a message to Pakistan: We are ready for comprehensive political talks. Peace with Pakistan is in our national agenda,&rdquo; Ghani said who has long been blaming Pakistan for &lsquo;waging an undeclared war&rsquo; against Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The President said no one can impose its will on Afghanistan, and Kabul can play key role in promoting peace in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Ghani called upon the Taliban to choose the path of peace instead of sowing the seeds of hatred and division among the Afghans. &ldquo;It is the time that they (Taliban) should choose that whether they are Afghans and have been grown by an Afghan mother or they are a tool of Khawarij for creating divisions (among the people of Afghanistan),&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The President underlined the need for unity, and vehemently condemned the recent attacks on sacred places of worship.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): In his Eid Day message, Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has expressed willingness to engage in political dialogue with Pakistan for peace in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-85704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85704","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=85704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}