{"id":90811,"date":"2019-05-31T03:55:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T03:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/hamid-karzai-rushes-to-welcome-an-undeclared-ceasefire\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:10:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:10:53","slug":"hamid-karzai-rushes-to-welcome-an-undeclared-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/hamid-karzai-rushes-to-welcome-an-undeclared-ceasefire\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamid Karzai rushes to welcome an undeclared ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"395\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/May\/31\/Capture.JPG\" width=\"702\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; The office of former president Hamid Karzai on Friday rushed to welcome a ceasefire announcement made by the Taliban last year.<\/p>\n<p>In a social media post, Karzai welcomed the ceasefire announced by the Taliban, and urged the Afghan government to reciprocate the move.<\/p>\n<p>This came in the backdrop of a viral social media audio clip in which the Taliban insurgents across the country are directed by their leaders to ceasefire during the three-day Eid, an important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, a meeting between a number of Afghan politicians including Karzai and the Taliban ended without a breakthrough in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Zabihullah Mujahed, the Taliban spokesman clarified in a statement that the viral audio clip on ceasefire is indeed from the last year, and no such decision has been made for this Eid.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 The office of former president Hamid Karzai on Friday rushed to welcome a ceasefire announcement made by the Taliban last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-90811","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\/90811","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=90811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}