{"id":90275,"date":"2019-03-15T07:32:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T07:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/security-heads-visit-balkh-to-defuse-situation\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:04:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:04:48","slug":"security-heads-visit-balkh-to-defuse-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/security-heads-visit-balkh-to-defuse-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"Security heads visit Balkh to defuse situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/March\/15\/\u0628\u0644\u062e.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MAZAR-I-SHARIF (SW) &ndash; The interim ministers for the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Interior on Friday visited Balkh to defuse the situation.<\/p>\n<p>The interim minister for the MoD, Assadullah Khalid, and interim minister for the MoI, Massoud Andrabi, addressed a joint presser along with the governor, Mohammad Ishaq Rehguzar, after meeting former governor, Atta Mohammad Noor, in the provincial capital, Mazar-i-Sharif. They said the confusions over the appointment of the new police chief that resulted in exchange of fire have been resolved.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Noor blamed the government for using state power against the people.<\/p>\n<p>Situation remained tense in Mazar-e-Sharif on Thursday with everyday life at standstill following the appointment of a new police chief.<\/p>\n<p>Following the directives about the appointment of the new police chief, Abdul Raqib Mubariz, the former Balkh governor, Atta Mohammad Noor, directed government employees and traders via a social media post to stay home in protest.<\/p>\n<p>Mubariz has been appointed to replace Mohammad Akram Sameh, a member of Noor&#39;s Jamiat-e-Islami party.&nbsp;The security forces were seen on alert across the city.<\/p>\n<p>Exchange of fire also took place around the police headquarters in Mazar-i-Sharif.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAZAR-I-SHARIF (SW) \u2013 The interim ministers for the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Interior on Friday visited Balkh to defuse the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-90275","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\/90275","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=90275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}