{"id":35269,"date":"2021-08-16T03:51:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T18:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/15\/talibans-abdul-ghani-baradar-is-undisputed-victor-of-a-20-year-war"},"modified":"2021-08-16T03:51:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T18:51:21","slug":"talibans-abdul-ghani-baradar-is-undisputed-victor-of-a-20-year-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35269","title":{"rendered":"Taliban\u2019s Abdul Ghani Baradar is undisputed victor of a 20-year war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Return to power of movement\u2019s co-founder embodies Afghanistan\u2019s inability to escape history of conflict<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/15\/afghanistan-taliban-close-in-on-kabul-as-last-government-stronghold-in-north-falls\">Taliban enters Kabul \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban leader freed from a Pakistani jail on the request of the US less than three years ago, has emerged as the undisputed military victor of a 20-year war.<\/p>\n<p>Baradar\u2019s return to power embodies Afghanistan\u2019s inability to escape the bloody shackles of its past. The story of his adult life is the story of the country\u2019s unceasing, pitiless conflict.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/15\/talibans-abdul-ghani-baradar-is-undisputed-victor-of-a-20-year-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Return to power of movement\u2019s co-founder embodies Afghanistan\u2019s inability to escape history of conflictTaliban enters Kabul \u2013 live updatesAbdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban leader freed from a Pakistani jail on the request of the US less than three years&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"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":[46,596,415,60,61,44,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-barack-obama","category-donald-trump","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/35269","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\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35270,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35269\/revisions\/35270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}