{"id":94064,"date":"2020-01-25T06:26:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T06:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/government-should-join-political-groups-for-talks-with-taliban\/"},"modified":"2020-01-25T06:26:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T06:26:55","slug":"government-should-join-political-groups-for-talks-with-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/government-should-join-political-groups-for-talks-with-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"Government should join political groups for talks with Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"541\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2020\/January\/25\/pedram.jpg\" width=\"1000\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; Presidential candidate, Abdul Lateef Pidram has suggested the government should join political groups to hold conclusive peace talks with the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a press conference in Kabul, he said the Taliban are not willing to negotiate with the Afghan government led by President Ashraf Ghani. According to him, the Taliban see Ashraf Ghani&#39;s government as a &lsquo;weak and puppet&rsquo;, so they are not ready to talk to it.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to say the final results of the presidential polls is not acceptable as the turnout was very low.<\/p>\n<p>A number of other presidential candidates, including Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah have rejected the initial results of the polls that declared the incumbent President Ghani as the winner.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 Presidential candidate, Abdul Lateef Pidram has suggested the government should join political groups to hold conclusive peace talks with the Taliban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-94064","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\/94064","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=94064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}