{"id":5679,"date":"2021-08-06T10:22:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T10:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=5679"},"modified":"2021-08-06T10:22:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T10:22:35","slug":"gmic-head-dawa-khan-menapal-assassinated-by-the-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/08\/gmic-head-dawa-khan-menapal-assassinated-by-the-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"GMIC head Menapal assassinated by the Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) \u2013 Former presidential spokesman and head of the Government Media Information Center, Dawa Khan Menapal got assassinated in the capital Kabul by the Taliban on Friday, authorities confirmed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The interior ministry said the incident took place on the Darul Aman road at around noon time.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban took responsibility for the killing.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"elementor-post__title\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/08\/01\/unama-demands-taliban-to-provide-answers-for-compound-attack\/\">UNAMA demands Taliban to provide answers for compound attack<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"elementor-post__title\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/08\/01\/taliban-briefly-abduct-two-journalists-in-herat\/\">Taliban briefly abduct two journalists in Herat<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Menapal hailed from the restive southern Kandahar province, and only a day earlier shared an audio clip of a Taliban leader directing insurgents in that province to shoot and hang pro-government figures indiscriminately amounting to war crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Friday, a rocket-propelled grenade hitting a passenger bus in Afghanistan&#8217;s restive central Maidan Wardak province left at least 5 civilians killed, confirmed officials on Friday<\/p>\n<p>The provincial administration blamed the Taliban for the incident, however, the insurgents rejected the charge and instead blamed the security forces for it.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 Former presidential spokesman and head of the Government Media Information Center, Dawa Khan Menapal got assassinated in the capital Kabul by the Taliban on Friday, authorities confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18,5,8,4,6,7],"tags":[12,166,633],"class_list":["post-5679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security_","category-peace","category-politics_","category-governance","category-news_","category-afghanistan","category-headline","tag-afghanistan","tag-kabul","tag-dawa-khan"],"views":508,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679","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=5679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}