{"id":333757,"date":"2021-09-08T00:33:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T06:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=333757"},"modified":"2021-09-08T00:33:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T06:03:44","slug":"taliban-declares-afghanistan-islamic-emirate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/taliban-declares-afghanistan-islamic-emirate\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban declares Afghanistan \u2018Islamic Emirate\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-333758\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/AP21227601035732.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/09\/AP21227601035732.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/09\/AP21227601035732-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/09\/AP21227601035732-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/09\/AP21227601035732-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/09\/AP21227601035732-696x466.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/09\/AP21227601035732-1068x714.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/09\/AP21227601035732-628x420.jpg 628w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/09\/AP21227601035732-1920x1284.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Taliban on Tuesday have announced an interim government in Afghanistan, declaring the country an &#8220;Islamic Emirate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The new government will be headed by Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, one of the movement&#8217;s founders, who had been foreign minister and then deputy prime minister in the group\u2019s previous 1996-2001 regime.<\/p>\n<p>The new cabinet, entirely male, is made up of senior Taliban figures some of whom are disreputable for attacks on US forces over the last two decades.<\/p>\n<p>The new cabinet is made up of senior Taliban figures some of whom are notorious for attacks on US forces over the last two decades.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban on Tuesday have announced an interim government in Afghanistan, declaring the country an &#8220;Islamic Emirate&#8221;. The new government will be headed by Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, one of the movement&#8217;s founders, who had been foreign minister and then deputy prime minister in the group\u2019s previous 1996-2001 regime. The new cabinet, entirely male, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":333758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,53],"tags":[428,14582,1740],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333757"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333759,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333757\/revisions\/333759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/333758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}