{"id":18326,"date":"2020-05-17T18:00:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T09:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/16\/afghan-rivals-power-sharing-deal-would-promote-official-accused-of-and-torture"},"modified":"2020-05-17T22:55:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T13:55:36","slug":"afghan-power-deal-hands-top-military-post-to-man-accused-of-torturing-rival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18326","title":{"rendered":"Afghan power deal hands top military post to man accused of torturing rival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential challengers Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah agree to share power<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan\u2019s months-long dispute over who won last year\u2019s presidential election has ended after the incumbent, Ashraf Ghani, and his main challenger, Abdullah Abdullah, agreed a power-sharing deal.<\/p>\n<p>Controversially, the deal makes the former vice-president, Abdul Rashid Dostum, who is accused of ordering the torture and rape of a political rival, marshal of the Afghan armed forces and a senior government official.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/16\/afghan-rivals-power-sharing-deal-would-promote-official-accused-of-and-torture\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential challengers Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah agree to share powerAfghanistan\u2019s months-long dispute over who won last year\u2019s presidential election has ended after the incumbent, Ashraf Ghani, and his main challenger, Abdullah Abdullah, ag&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"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":[46,621,319,45,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-ashraf-ghani","category-foreign-policy","category-us-foreign-policy","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\/18326","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18332,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18326\/revisions\/18332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}