{"id":304508,"date":"2018-10-22T04:47:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T04:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304508"},"modified":"2018-10-22T04:47:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T04:47:03","slug":"india-congratulates-afghanistan-for-successful-parliamentary-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-congratulates-afghanistan-for-successful-parliamentary-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"India congratulates Afghanistan for successful Parliamentary elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-304509 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/afghanistan-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"416\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/afghanistan-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/afghanistan.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India on Sunday extended its\u00a0congratulations\u00a0to Afghanistan\u00a0for successfully holding\u00a0parliamentary elections\u00a0in the country, Ministry of External Affairs said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India congratulated the people of Afghanistan for exercising their democratic rights at Parliamentary elections held yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a statement, the External Affairs Ministry said, the enthusiastic participation of people, including women, despite terrorist violence, is a testament of resilience of the people of Afghanistan.\u00a0It reflects their desire and faith in democratic governance and rejection of the evil forces that foment and spread terror and violence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India too congratulated the National Unity government, the Independent election Commission and the security forces of Afghanistan for creating an enabling environment and organising the elections despite numerous challenges.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">MEA further said, &#8220;We hope that these elections would contribute to the strengthening of democratic institutions and deepen inclusive democratic system in Afghanistan.\u00a0India\u00a0supports the people of Afghanistan in their efforts to build a peaceful, stable, united, inclusive and prosperous nation.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per Independent Election Commission\u2019s recent figures \u201cAbout three million people risk their lives to vote on Saturday.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Officials said, at least 17 people were killed and 83 people were injured in violent incidents across the country as people voted on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India on Sunday extended its\u00a0congratulations\u00a0to Afghanistan\u00a0for successfully holding\u00a0parliamentary elections\u00a0in the country, Ministry of External Affairs said. India congratulated the people of Afghanistan for exercising their democratic rights at Parliamentary elections held yesterday. In a statement, the External Affairs Ministry said, the enthusiastic participation of people, including women, despite terrorist violence, is a testament of resilience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":304509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[428,6697,574,1999,6692],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304511,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304508\/revisions\/304511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}