{"id":19070,"date":"2018-10-19T09:22:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T09:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19070"},"modified":"2018-10-19T09:22:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T09:22:48","slug":"afghan-election-polls-in-kandahar-delayed-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19070","title":{"rendered":"Afghan election: Polls in Kandahar delayed a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"89.6801526718\">\n<p class=\"speakable\"><strong>Kabul, Afghanistan &#8211;<\/strong> Parliamentary election in Afghanistan&#8217;s Kandahar province <span>due to be held on Saturday, will be delayed by a week following the assassination of a powerful provincial police commander<\/span>, according to the electoral body and the president&#8217;s spokesman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">President Ashraf Ghani&#8217;s\u00a0spokesman\u00a0Haroon Chakansuri told Al Jazeera the decision was made following demands from local people in the the province and recommendation from electoral officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The suspension of the polls comes following the assassination of Kandahar province&#8217;s police chief <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/10\/profile-afghanistan-general-abdul-raziq-181018132154966.html\">General Abdul Raziq<\/a>\u00a0in an attack claimed by Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>The southern province&#8217;s intelligence chief, Abdul Mohmin, was also killed in the attack on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Chakansuri said date for the poll will be announced later without giving further details.<\/p>\n<p>Afghans will be voting on Saturday to elect members of parliament in polls delayed repeatedly for the past three years.<\/p>\n<p>The interior ministry said they have put in place measures to ensure voting happens without incidents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The election is going according to plan. We have measures and we meet regularly. There will be no problem,&#8221; Nasrat Rahimi, deputy spokesman for the interior ministry, told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over 70,000 security forces are there to maintain security. They are on high alert,&#8221; Rahimi said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kabul, Afghanistan &#8211; Parliamentary election in Afghanistan&#8217;s Kandahar province due to be held on Saturday, will be delayed by a week following the assassination of a powerful provincial police commander, according to the electoral body and the president&#8217;s spokesman. President Ashraf Ghani&#8217;s\u00a0spokesman\u00a0Haroon Chakansuri told Al Jazeera the decision was made following demands from local people&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}