{"id":90581,"date":"2019-03-27T07:32:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T07:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/mof-ready-to-fund-elections\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:06:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:06:43","slug":"mof-ready-to-fund-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/mof-ready-to-fund-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"MoF ready to fund elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"351\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/March\/27\/_104485621__102759495_gettyimages-450606412.jpg\" width=\"624\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; The Ministry of Finance has dedicated funds worth AFN 1 billion available for holding forthcoming elections in the country, an official said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Shamroz Khan Masjidi, spokesman for the MoF, told Salam Watandar the international community and donor agencies have pledged to support the election process, however, in case of non-availability of funds from elsewhere, the MoF would be in position to fund the polls.<\/p>\n<p>The MoF official said the electoral commission has so far not presented its draft budget proposal for the elections.<\/p>\n<p>When contacted, Zabehullah Sadat, deputy spokesman for the Independent Election Commission, told SW the international community and donors have not back-tracked from their pledges of supporting the process. He said work in underway on the draft budget in consultation with the donors.<\/p>\n<p>This comes amid media reports about the international donors not willing to fund the polls over the ambiguities surrounding it.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 The Ministry of Finance has dedicated funds worth AFN 1 billion available for holding forthcoming elections in the country, an official said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-90581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90581","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=90581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}