{"id":16200,"date":"2023-11-11T09:12:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T09:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=16200"},"modified":"2023-11-11T09:12:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T09:12:55","slug":"hundred-couples-tie-knots-in-sar-e-pul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2023\/11\/hundred-couples-tie-knots-in-sar-e-pul\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundred couples tie knots in Sar-e-Pul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SAR-E-PUL (SW) &#8211; At least 100 young couples got married in a mass ceremony held in Sar-e-Pul on Friday<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony was organized by financial support of the local businessman, Mohammad Akbar Sultanzada.<\/p>\n<p>In this ceremony, a six-meter carpet, a wedding dress and 20,000 afghanis in cash were distributed to each couple.<\/p>\n<p>Local and security officials, heads of tribes, religious leaders, relatives of brides and grooms and hundreds of residents of Sar-e-Pul also participated in this wedding ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Nader Haqjo, deputy governor of Sar-e-pol, has called on other traders and investors to support more for Institutionalization of holding mass wedding ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Hamidullah, one of the heads of a tribe in Sar-e-Pul, says that holding such ceremonies is beneficial to prevent excessive wedding expenses and help youths who do not have the financial ability to pay for their wedding.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a number of youths who have been engaged for one to seven years snd unable to get married due to poverty, say that holding mass wedding ceremonies is a great support to them and according to them, it should be adopted as a culture.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAR-E-PUL (SW) &#8211; At least 100 young couples got married in a mass ceremony held in Sar-e-Pul on Friday. The ceremony was organized by financial support of the local businessman, Mohammad Akbar Sultanzada. In this ceremony, a six-meter carpet, a wedding dress and 20,000 afghanis in cash were distributed to each couple. Local and security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,984,179,980,8,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soceity","category-news","category-economy-business","category-society-culture","category-governance","category-news_","category-afghanistan"],"views":77,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16200","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=16200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16202,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16200\/revisions\/16202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}