{"id":36846,"date":"2021-09-14T14:00:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/14\/questions-in-kabul-as-two-top-taliban-leaders-missing-from-public-view"},"modified":"2021-09-14T14:00:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T05:00:04","slug":"questions-in-kabul-as-two-top-taliban-leaders-missing-from-public-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36846","title":{"rendered":"Questions in Kabul as two top Taliban leaders \u2018missing from public view\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Group\u2019s leader, Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, and one of their most recognisable faces, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, have not been seen<\/p>\n<p>Two senior Taliban leaders have gone missing from public view, leading some Afghans to question whether the group\u2019s supreme leader and new deputy prime minister are alive.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/13\/un-human-rights-chief-warns-of-escalating-crisis-in-afghanistan\">Taliban assure UN over safety and security of humanitarian workers<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/14\/questions-in-kabul-as-two-top-taliban-leaders-missing-from-public-view\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group\u2019s leader, Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, and one of their most recognisable faces, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, have not been seenTwo senior Taliban leaders have gone missing from public view, leading some Afghans to question whether the group\u2019s s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2563,"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-36846","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\/36846","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\/2563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36847,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36846\/revisions\/36847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}