{"id":90034,"date":"2019-02-12T02:50:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T02:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/sibghatullah-mojaddedi-passes-away\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:01:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:01:58","slug":"sibghatullah-mojaddedi-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/sibghatullah-mojaddedi-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Sibghatullah Mojaddedi passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"509\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/February\/12\/Mujadidi.jpg\" width=\"509\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, former president and head of the Afghan National Liberation Front, passed away here at the age of 93.<\/p>\n<p>The late Mojaddedi&rsquo;s son Zabihullah Mojaddedi issued a statement confirming his father passed away after a long illness. It was announced the funeral would be held on Wednesday in Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>The spiritual political leader chaired the Loya Jirga (grand council) to approve the Constitution in 2003. He served as speaker of the Masharano Jirga (upper house) from 2005 till 2010.<\/p>\n<p>He was among the pioneering leaders of the resistance movement against the invading Soviet forces, and served as president of the interim government in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, former president and head of the Afghan National Liberation Front, passed away here at the age of 93.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-90034","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\/90034","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=90034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}