{"id":86808,"date":"2017-12-22T04:34:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T04:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/pence-underlines-importance-of-fair-free-elections-in-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2017-12-22T04:34:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T04:34:06","slug":"pence-underlines-importance-of-fair-free-elections-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/pence-underlines-importance-of-fair-free-elections-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pence underlines importance of fair, free elections in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"593\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2017\/Desember\/22\/25550128_1517112968364940_7926837564209491361_n.jpg\" width=\"960\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): On a surprise visit to Kabul, the U.S. Vice President Mike Pence stressed upon the importance of fair and free elections in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Hailing the achievements of the National Unity Government (NUG), VP Pence reiterated Washington&rsquo;s lasting support for Afghanistan.&nbsp;Highlighting the government&#39;s achievements in bringing reforms on various fronts,&nbsp;Afghan President Ghani told the visiting U.S. dignitary that ties between Kabul and Washington are based on mutual interests and strategy, and have strengthened.&nbsp;Ghani also hailed the new U.S. Strategy for South Asia, and pronounced it effective in combating terrorism, and promoting regional cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>Pence also issued a stern warning to Afghanistan&#39;s neighbor Pakistan for allegedly harboring terrorists. &ldquo;Pakistan has much to gain from partnering with the United States, and Pakistan has much to lose by continuing to harbour criminals and terrorists,&quot; Penec said addressing U.S. troops in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): On a surprise visit to Kabul, the U.S. Vice President Mike Pence stressed upon the importance of fair and free elections in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-86808","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\/86808","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=86808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}