{"id":1367,"date":"2020-10-14T14:10:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T14:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2020-10-14T14:10:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T14:10:52","slug":"circles-in-the-presidential-palace-politicizing-anti-corruption-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2020\/10\/circles-in-the-presidential-palace-politicizing-anti-corruption-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Circles in the Presidential Palace\u2019 politicizing anti-corruption drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 The Integrity Watch Afghanistan on Wednesday claimed \u2018circles in the Presidential Palace\u2019 are politicizing and using the anti-corruption commission to their advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Ikram Afzali, chief executive of IWA, told a news conference on Wednesday that the government has failed to fight corruption and that the fight against corruption remained a slogan. He added that the Anti-Corruption Commission is not independent and that circles in the presidential palace are trying to politicize the office.<\/p>\n<p>The chief executive of the IWA further said that the selection of key members of the Anti-Corruption Commission has been discriminative, and that the Presidential Palace is trying to politicize the anti-corruption process by politicizing the institutions responsible for fighting corruption.<\/p>\n<p>The IWA chief executive stressed that the government should pursue policies to depoliticize anti-corruption institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The Presidential Palace has not commented on the allegations made by the IWA chief executive.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ikram Afzali, chief executive of IWA, told a news conference on Wednesday that the government had failed to fight corruption and that the fight against corruption remained a slogan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4,6,7],"tags":[12,219,220,221],"class_list":["post-1367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-governance","category-news_","category-afghanistan","category-headline","tag-afghanistan","tag-corruption","tag-arg","tag-integrity-watch-afghanistan"],"views":774,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367","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=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}