{"id":1188,"date":"2019-03-30T05:12:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T05:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caps.af\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2019-03-30T05:12:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T05:12:44","slug":"who-should-we-call-political-or-partisan-opposition-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caps.af\/?p=1188","title":{"rendered":"Who should we call political or partisan opposition in Afghanistan?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Oct 27, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\nBy Sayed Maisam Wahidi<br \/>\nIn the present political situation, \u2018opposition\u2019 is a new and popular term in the literature of Afghan politics. Opposition manifests itself in divergence of opinions between the government and its people. Sometimes, opposition could appear in a sophisticated and organized political party and sometimes opposition movements flow and become a revolution. In the Afghan political environment, however, an opposition entity has not properly formed. The term \u2018opposition\u2019 can have good or bad connotations, but it is the consequence of political plurality in Afghan society that people express their opinions publicly and criticize the government in the post-Taliban era. More than 80 political parties were registered before the first Parliamentary election in 2005. However, subsequently there was no progression of strong political parties to enhance the people\u2019s political participation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/caps.af\/Doc\/Who%20Should%20We%20Call%20Opposition%20in%20Afghanistan.pdf\">(Full Article,file type (Pdf) 176 kb )<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 27, 2011 By Sayed Maisam Wahidi In the present political situation, \u2018opposition\u2019 is a new and popular term in the literature of Afghan politics. Opposition manifests itself in divergence of opinions between the government and its people. Sometimes, opposition could appear in a sophisticated and organized political party and sometimes opposition movements flow and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}