{"id":333401,"date":"2021-08-16T01:42:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T07:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=333401"},"modified":"2021-08-30T05:04:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T10:34:16","slug":"taliban-declares-victory-over-afghanistan-after-president-ghani-leaves-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/taliban-declares-victory-over-afghanistan-after-president-ghani-leaves-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban declares victory over Afghanistan after President Ghani leaves country \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-333402\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/download-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Taliban have taken control of the capital city of Kabul after Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country on 15<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0August and sought asylum in Tajikistan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In just a week,\u00a0after the Islamist militants entered the city, bringing the Islamist militants close to taking over the country two decades after they were overthrown by a US-led invasion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0An official part of the militant group said the Taliban will soon declare the &#8216;Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan&#8217; from the presidential palace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a video posted to social media, Taliban co-founder Abdul Ghani Baradar also announced his movement&#8217;s victory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Now it&#8217;s time to test and prove, now we have to show that we can serve our nation and ensure security and comfort of life,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thousands of people were on Monday trying to escape Kabul after the horrifying collapse of the government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taliban taking over the presidential palace on Sunday night, triggered fear and panic in the capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban have taken control of the capital city of Kabul after Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country on 15th\u00a0August and sought asylum in Tajikistan. In just a week,\u00a0after the Islamist militants entered the city, bringing the Islamist militants close to taking over the country two decades after they were overthrown by a US-led [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":333402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,53],"tags":[14518,428,5147,14517],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333401"}],"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\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333404,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333401\/revisions\/333404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/333402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}