{"id":61845,"date":"2018-10-20T09:33:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T08:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=61845"},"modified":"2018-10-20T09:33:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T08:33:10","slug":"afghans-go-to-polls-amid-security-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/afghans-go-to-polls-amid-security-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghans go to polls amid security threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Voting for the long-due Afghan parliamentary elections began Saturday amid tight security.<\/h2>\n<p>The polls opened at 7 a.m. local time (0230GMT), with some delays reported, and will continue till 4 p.m (1130GMT).<\/p>\n<p>President Ashraf Ghani and First Lady Rula Ghani cast their votes.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters, the president said that efforts are underway to hold elections in two provinces Ghazni and Kandahar where the poll was postponed due to a law and order situation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the country\u2019s election authority, at least 8.8 million people are expected to vote for 2,500 candidates who are running for the Wolesi Jirga (lower house of the parliament).<\/p>\n<p>More than 70,000 security personnel have been assigned to ensure security of the parliamentary elections, the Ministry of Interior and Defence said.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban, who have declared war on the government, warned people against coming out to vote.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting for the long-due Afghan parliamentary elections began Saturday amid tight security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,118,101,14],"tags":[2595,9343],"class_list":["post-61845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-politics","category-world","tag-afghanistan","tag-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}