{"id":10724,"date":"2022-06-27T14:15:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T14:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=10724"},"modified":"2022-06-27T14:15:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T14:15:46","slug":"journalists-lament-lack-of-access-to-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2022\/06\/journalists-lament-lack-of-access-to-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalists lament lack of access to information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) &#8211; Journalists in the capital Kabul say access to information remains limited despite assurances by the Islamic Emirate authorities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A number of journalists say that the officials of the Islamic Emirate do not provide them with information in a timely manner. According to them, while preparations are being made for a large meeting, government spokesmen do not provide any information to the media.<\/p>\n<p>Dawood Mubarak Oglu, a reporter for Salam Watandar, says it has been two days since a letter was issued on social media regarding the proposed Loya Jirga, but officials were not sharing more details about it. &#8220;There is a serious need, especially for such a national process, for which the government must respond so that the people know the details.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Taj Wali Ghorzang, a correspondent for Radio Kilid, and Mansour Niazi, a correspondent for Al-Jazeera, said that the media needed information and that government officials should provide information to the media in a timely manner.<\/p>\n<p>According to them, if the officials do not inform the media and the people, the gap between the people and the government may widen. &#8220;Unfortunately, in the last few months, journalists have been having difficulty accessing information. Sometimes, journalists wait for days for a news item or short report to have the voice of government officials.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Zarif Karimi, a member of the Federation of Journalists and Media Organisation of Afghanistan, says that although access to information is a legal right of journalists, it is not taken into account in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, some government officials violate the law on access to information and delay the provision of accurate information or do not pay any attention to it. &#8220;We have repeatedly asked the officials of the caretaker government, the Ministry of Information and Culture, through press conferences, announcements and messages not to fail to provide information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; Journalists in the capital Kabul say access to information remains limited despite assurances by the Islamic Emirate authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,200,5,4,6],"tags":[360,361,683,12],"class_list":["post-10724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soceity","category-democracy-human-rights","category-politics_","category-news_","category-afghanistan","tag-media","tag-journalists","tag-islamic-emirate","tag-afghanistan"],"views":282,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}