{"id":19144,"date":"2024-03-19T04:53:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T04:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=19144"},"modified":"2024-03-19T10:36:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T10:36:27","slug":"swedish-committee-stops-operating-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/03\/swedish-committee-stops-operating-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Committee stops operating in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) &#8211; Andreas Stefansson, Secretary-General of the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan, said in a recent interview with a local audio medium that the committee has stopped operating in Afghanistan for the past three days, following a request from the de-facto government of the Islamic Emirate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He added, &#8220;The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan is stopping its activities in Afghanistan starting today; this request is due to the decision of the Taliban and for ensuring the security of the staff; when our work is not authorized, it may pose risks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary-General of the SCA has emphasized that they hope the Swedish Committee can continue some parts of its aid to the people of Afghanistan through other organizations.<\/p>\n<p>The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan provided assistance to those in need, especially women, children, and people with disabilities, in 18 provinces.<\/p>\n<p>The de-facto government in Afghanistan, in the summer of the current year, canceled the activities of relevant institutions in the country after a copy of the Holy Quran was burned by an Iraqi citizen in Sweden.<\/p>\n<h6><strong><em>ENDS<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; Andreas Stefansson, Secretary-General of the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan, said in a recent interview with a local audio medium that the committee has stopped operating in Afghanistan for the past three days, following a request from the de-facto government of the Islamic Emirate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":19145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,1,984,194,200,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-0_swnen","category-news","category-world","category-democracy-human-rights","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":178,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19144","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19144"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19158,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19144\/revisions\/19158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}