{"id":15494,"date":"2020-03-06T22:37:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T13:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/06\/dozens-killed-in-attack-on-political-rally-in-kabul"},"modified":"2020-03-06T22:37:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T13:37:58","slug":"dozens-killed-in-attack-on-political-rally-in-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15494","title":{"rendered":"Dozens killed in attack on political rally in Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assault highlights insecurity in Afghan capital in run-up to scheduled US withdrawal<\/p>\n<p>At least 27 people have been killed in an attack on a political rally in Kabul in the deadliest assault in Afghanistan since the US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/29\/us-taliban-sign-peace-agreement-afghanistan-war\">signed a withdrawal deal with the Taliban<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The attack highlights the glaring lack of security in the heavily fortified Afghan capital 14 months ahead of a scheduled withdrawal of all foreign forces under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/29\/us-taliban-sign-peace-agreement-afghanistan-war\">an agreement signed on 29 February <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/29\/us-taliban-sign-peace-agreement-afghanistan-war\"> by the US and <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/29\/us-taliban-sign-peace-agreement-afghanistan-war\"> Taliban<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/06\/dozens-killed-in-attack-on-political-rally-in-kabul\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assault highlights insecurity in Afghan capital in run-up to scheduled US withdrawalAt least 27 people have been killed in an attack on a political rally in Kabul in the deadliest assault in Afghanistan since the US signed a withdrawal deal with the Ta&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":514,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15577,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15494\/revisions\/15577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}