{"id":5516,"date":"2021-07-28T11:40:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T11:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=5516"},"modified":"2021-07-28T11:40:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T11:40:48","slug":"kandahar-residents-stage-large-demo-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/07\/kandahar-residents-stage-large-demo-for-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Kandahar residents stage large demo for peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KANDAHAR CITY (SW) \u2013 A large number of Kandahar residents gathered in the city on Wednesday to call for peace in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The protesters, who included civil society activists, youth and common citizens, said the raging violence in the country was causing deaths and miseries beyond limits.<\/p>\n<p>According to them, there is fighting and bombing every night in the city of Kandahar, as a result of which some 7,000 families have been displaced so far and more than 10 civilians are killed and wounded every day.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"elementor-post__title\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/07\/25\/taliban-spy-networks-in-kandahar-behind-abductions-killings\/\">Taliban spy networks in Kandahar behind abductions, killings<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"elementor-post__title\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/07\/16\/indian-journalist-killed-during-fighting-in-kandahar\/\">Indian journalist killed during fighting in Kandahar<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Demonstrators said people have fled their homes and businesses have collapsed due to the current unrest.<\/p>\n<p>They called on the government to pay serious attention to the security of the city.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on behalf of the marchers, Mohammed Aaron Almas called on the parties involved in the conflict to work for a ceasefire first and foremost. &#8220;We are humans, no Taliban or the government forces have the right to kills us\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the surrounding districts, fighting has been going on in Kandahar city for the past 21 days, as a result of which more than 10 people are killed and wounded every day.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANDAHAR CITY (SW) \u2013 A large number of Kandahar residents gathered in the city on Wednesday to call for peace in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17,18,200,5,4,6],"tags":[12,13,14,273],"class_list":["post-5516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soceity","category-security_","category-peace","category-democracy-human-rights","category-politics_","category-news_","category-afghanistan","tag-afghanistan","tag-taliban","tag-peace","tag-kandahar"],"views":500,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5516","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=5516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}