{"id":2173,"date":"2019-10-07T05:27:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T05:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caps.af\/?p=2173"},"modified":"2019-10-07T05:27:33","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T05:27:33","slug":"ghani-fires-foreign-ministrys-spokesman-over-irresponsible-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caps.af\/?p=2173","title":{"rendered":"Ghani Fires Foreign Ministry\u2019s Spokesman Over \u2018Irresponsible\u2019 Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">(ATN news): The Afghan presidential palace and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) released conflicting statements over Taliban\u2019s 12-member visit to Pakistan and later on the spokespersons of the two government entities brawled on Twitter. Ghani\u2019s spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said the Pakistan and Taliban meeting in Islamabad will not help the Afghan peace process. However, the Foreign Ministry Spokesman said the ministry welcomes and appreciates such efforts. On Saturday, Ghani\u2019s spokesman denounced Mr. Ahmadi\u2019s comments, saying it doesn\u2019t reflect the Afghan government views rather it\u2019s his personal remarks. Again, the MoFA spokesman emphasized that he has expressed the official position of the government on foreign policy, adding that \u201csome individuals within the government are still in electoral campaign mood.\u201d The dismissal of MoFA spokesman was announced by Ghani\u2019s spokesman who said Mr. Ahmadi has been \u201cfired due to his latest irresponsible comments\u201d. In addition, Mirwais Nab, former Afghan ambassador to Uzbekistan has been appointed by the president as acting spokesman for ministry of foreign affairs and as its deputy minister for economic cooperation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(ATN news): The Afghan presidential palace and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) released conflicting statements over Taliban\u2019s 12-member visit to Pakistan and later on the spokespersons of the two government entities brawled on Twitter. Ghani\u2019s spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said the Pakistan and Taliban meeting in Islamabad will not help the Afghan peace process. However, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173","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=2173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2174,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions\/2174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}