{"id":91073,"date":"2019-07-09T09:34:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T09:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/senior-journalist-aashiqullah-yaqub-is-no-more\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:13:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:13:49","slug":"senior-journalist-aashiqullah-yaqub-is-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/senior-journalist-aashiqullah-yaqub-is-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior journalist Aashiqullah Yaqub is no more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"540\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/july\/09\/66432803_2363814923902048_2244440511777603584_n.jpg\" width=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; Senior journalist, writer and political analyst, Aashiqullah Yaqub, died on Tuesday of chronic heart illness at the age of 57.<\/p>\n<p>Serving as head of Pashtu section at the Salam Watandar since 2009, Yaqub has to his credit a number of books and numerous articles besides overlooking the editorial sections of an array of publications in the country.<\/p>\n<p>SW&rsquo;s editor-in-chief, Shah Hussain Rasuli, dubbed the death of Aashiqullah Yaqub as a grim loss of the media community in Afghanistan. He remembered the veteran journalist as a humble human being and well-wishing adviser. Rasuli told a memorial ceremony at the SW that Yaqub would be dearly missed. Prayers were observed for his soul.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Adviser on Cultural Affairs, Shah Hussain Murtazavi, Kabul Press Club, NAI &ndash; Supporting Open Media in Afghanistan also sorrow over the death of Yaqub.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 Senior journalist, writer and political analyst, Aashiqullah Yaqub, died on Tuesday of chronic heart illness at the age of 57.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-91073","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\/91073","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=91073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}