{"id":89896,"date":"2019-01-25T06:09:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T06:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/biradar-named-as-head-of-the-taliban-qatar-office\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:00:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:00:14","slug":"biradar-named-as-head-of-the-taliban-qatar-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/biradar-named-as-head-of-the-taliban-qatar-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Biradar named as head of the Taliban Qatar office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/January\/25\/taliban.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; Mulla Abdul Ghani Biradar, a Taliban-era senior commander, has been named as the head of this group&rsquo;s Qatar office.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban have announced this move is aimed at &ldquo;progress and success of the talks for peace with the U.S&rdquo;. There are reports the Taliban have transferred and replaced a number of shadow-governors in Afghanistan, and a prison swap has also taken place.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as the talks between the two sides in Doha, Qatar have entered fifth day.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Taliban, an eight member Taliban delegation is led by Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai while the 11-member U.S. delegation is led by Zalmay Khalilzad.<\/p>\n<p>The 50-year-old Mullah Abdul Ghani Biradar is among the founding leaders of the Taliban along with Mohammad Umer who founded the movement in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 Mulla Abdul Ghani Biradar, a Taliban-era senior commander, has been named as the head of this group\u2019s Qatar office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-89896","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\/89896","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=89896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}