{"id":21152,"date":"2020-07-30T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/30\/taliban-agree-eid-ceasefire-in-afghanistan-peace-talks"},"modified":"2020-07-30T13:00:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T04:00:08","slug":"taliban-agree-eid-ceasefire-in-afghanistan-peace-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21152","title":{"rendered":"Taliban agree Eid ceasefire in Afghanistan peace talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Militants to halt fighting over Muslim holiday following deal to release 5000 combatants<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan\u2019s stuttering peace process has received fresh impetus with the announcement of an Eid ceasefire, and a government pledge to complete the release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners, a pre-condition for direct talks.<\/p>\n<p>US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, in Kabul as part of a regional push to get talks back on track, has also suggested the ceasefire could be extended if the militant fighters are released by Friday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1tvnews.af\/en\/news\/afghanistan\/42711\">local media reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/30\/taliban-agree-eid-ceasefire-in-afghanistan-peace-talks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Militants to halt fighting over Muslim holiday following deal to release 5000 combatantsAfghanistan\u2019s stuttering peace process has received fresh impetus with the announcement of an Eid ceasefire, and a government pledge to complete the release of 5,00&#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":[46,621,61,44,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-ashraf-ghani","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-united-nations"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21152","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=21152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21166,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21152\/revisions\/21166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}