{"id":91101,"date":"2019-07-13T08:50:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T08:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/wj-candidates-vow-to-torch-their-identity-cards\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:14:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:14:08","slug":"wj-candidates-vow-to-torch-their-identity-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wj-candidates-vow-to-torch-their-identity-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"WJ candidates vow to torch their identity cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"720\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/july\/13\/\u0646\u0648\u0645\u0627\u0646\u062f\u0627\u0646\u06d0.jpg\" width=\"960\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; A number of protesting female Wolesi Jirga (lower house) candidates on Saturday vowed to torch their identity cards if their complaints are not addressed.<\/p>\n<p>These protesting candidates gathered in front of the Supreme Court in Kabul in connection with their protest against the final results for the WJ polls. They claimed a number of new members of the house managed to grab the seat in the parliament through connections.<\/p>\n<p>Farzana Farhamand, one such protesting candidate, said if the Supreme Court failed to address their concerns, they would set their selves on fire.<\/p>\n<p>The WJ polls were held in October last year, but complaints in connection with rigging and irregularities remain.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 A number of protesting female Wolesi Jirga (lower house) candidates on Saturday vowed to torch their identity cards if their complaints are not addressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-91101","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\/91101","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=91101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}