{"id":40989,"date":"2019-09-28T10:22:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T10:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40989"},"modified":"2019-09-28T10:22:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T10:22:09","slug":"in-pictures-afghans-vote-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40989","title":{"rendered":"In pictures: Afghans vote for president"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"46.9854111406\">\n<p class=\"p1\">Voters across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/afghanistan.html\">Afghanistan<\/a> are casting their ballots to pick their country&#8217;s next leader.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The winner is expected to play a key part in the efforts to end the war with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/taliban.html\">Taliban<\/a>, which now controls more of the country than at any time since its toppling in a US-led invasion in 2001.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The armed group refuses to negotiate with the Afghan government and has denounced the election as a &#8220;sham&#8221;. It has urged voters to stay away from polling stations, which it threatened to attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Amid rising security concerns, tens of thousands of security forces were deployed on Saturday across the country to protect voters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The election, which has been delayed twice, is taking place after talks between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-states.html\">United States<\/a> and the Taliban collapsed earlier this month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters across Afghanistan are casting their ballots to pick their country&#8217;s next leader. The winner is expected to play a key part in the efforts to end the war with the Taliban, which now controls more of the country than at any time since its toppling in a US-led invasion in 2001. The armed group&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40989","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\/40989","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=40989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}