{"id":35205,"date":"2021-08-14T20:27:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T11:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/14\/afghan-president-in-urgent-talks-as-taliban-push-closer-to-kabul"},"modified":"2021-08-14T20:27:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T11:27:38","slug":"afghan-president-in-urgent-talks-as-taliban-push-closer-to-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35205","title":{"rendered":"Afghan president in urgent talks as Taliban push closer to Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ashraf Ghani says focus is on preventing \u2018further instability, violence and displacement\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan\u2019s president, Ashraf Ghani, held urgent talks with local leaders and international partners on Saturday as Taliban rebels pushed closer to Kabul, capturing a town south of the capital that is one of the gateways to the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs your president, my focus is on preventing further instability, violence and displacement of my people,\u201d Ghani said in a brief televised address, as the US and other countries <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/14\/us-troops-start-to-arrive-for-afghanistan-evacuation-as-taliban-close-in-on-kabul\">rushed in troops<\/a> to help evacuate their embassies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/14\/afghan-president-in-urgent-talks-as-taliban-push-closer-to-kabul\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashraf Ghani says focus is on preventing \u2018further instability, violence and displacement\u2019Afghanistan\u2019s president, Ashraf Ghani, held urgent talks with local leaders and international partners on Saturday as Taliban rebels pushed closer to Kabul, captur&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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":[46,621,61,44,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-ashraf-ghani","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","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\/35205","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35206,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35205\/revisions\/35206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}