{"id":1467,"date":"2020-10-21T10:42:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T10:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2020-10-21T10:42:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T10:42:09","slug":"12-women-killed-waiting-to-get-visa-for-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2020\/10\/12-women-killed-waiting-to-get-visa-for-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"11 women killed waiting to get visa for Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JALALABAD (SW) \u2013 At least 11 women lost their lives in a stampede at Pakistan visa token collection spot in Jalalabad, an official confirmed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Gul Zada Sangar, spokesman for the regional hospital in Nangarhar told Salam Watandar that the incident took place in an open ground in the city where thousands of people had gathered to submit passports for visas to Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Locals said the stampede was caused by the overcrowding and poor management.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after softened visa regime declared by Pakistan earlier this month. Pakistan\u2019s embassy in Kabul issued over 2,000 visas in a single day on Oct. 12, following the government\u2019s decision to facilitate Afghan citizens, an official said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 29, Pakistan\u2019s federal cabinet approved a new visa policy for Afghanistan to issue multiple entry visit visas to facilitate Afghan traders and citizens.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days earlier, Pakistan\u2019s embassy in Kabul issued over 2,000 visas in a single day following the government\u2019s decision to facilitate Afghan citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4,7],"tags":[12,177,249,250],"class_list":["post-1467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-governance","category-news_","category-headline","tag-afghanistan","tag-pakistan","tag-visa","tag-jalalabad"],"views":640,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467","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=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}