{"id":36865,"date":"2021-09-15T02:28:33","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T17:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/14\/taliban-governor-of-helmands-message-to-west-come-back-with-money-not-guns"},"modified":"2021-09-15T02:28:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T17:28:33","slug":"taliban-governor-of-helmands-message-to-west-come-back-with-money-not-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36865","title":{"rendered":"Taliban governor of Helmand\u2019s message to west: \u2018Come back with money, not guns\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talib Mawlawi, who spent years fighting the British, urges western nations to recognise Taliban as Afghanistan\u2019s legitimate leaders<\/p>\n<p>Helmand\u2019s new Taliban governor, who spent years as a commander fighting the British in Sangin, welcomes visitors with an assault rifle lying on his desk. Yet he insists the time for fighting is over.<\/p>\n<p>He has a message for the British, and the rest of Nato: recognise the Taliban as Afghanistan\u2019s legitimate leaders and then come back, but with money not guns.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/14\/taliban-governor-of-helmands-message-to-west-come-back-with-money-not-guns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talib Mawlawi, who spent years fighting the British, urges western nations to recognise Taliban as Afghanistan\u2019s legitimate leadersHelmand\u2019s new Taliban governor, who spent years as a commander fighting the British in Sangin, welcomes visitors with an &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2572,"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":[46,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","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\/36865","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\/2572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36866,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36865\/revisions\/36866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}