{"id":85832,"date":"2017-09-12T08:37:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T08:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/hundreds-protest-against-the-u-s-over-blasphemous-leaflets\/"},"modified":"2017-09-12T08:37:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T08:37:47","slug":"hundreds-protest-against-the-u-s-over-blasphemous-leaflets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/hundreds-protest-against-the-u-s-over-blasphemous-leaflets\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds protest against the U.S. over \u2018blasphemous\u2019 leaflets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"233\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2017\/Sep\/12\/parwan (2).jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in Kabul&rsquo;s Qara Bagh district against the U.S. for dropping allegedly blasphemous leaflets last week.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters, chanting slogans against the U.S., kept the highway linking Kabul with the northern provinces blocked for many hours. They warned of serious repercussions if such blasphemous acts reoccur.<\/p>\n<p>Though, the U.S. Forces in Afghanistan apologized for this &lsquo;mistake last week, but the protesters insisted it was a deliberate act, and an apology is not enough. The air-dropping of these leaflets deemed blasphemous also invited harsh reactions from the government, civil society and religious elders.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Aasim Aasim, governor of Parwan province, after the apology of the U.S. forces, pronounced this acts as &lsquo;unforgivable&rsquo;, and announced to form fact-finding commission to probe the incident. It has been almost a week since these &lsquo;blaspheomous&rsquo; leaflets were dropped, but the commission is yet to announce its findings.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in Kabul\u2019s Qara Bagh district against the U.S. for dropping allegedly blasphemous leaflets last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-85832","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\/85832","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=85832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}