(ATN News): Addressing a gathering in Paktika on Saturday, Ghani said: \u201cTaliban are negative forces and they show their presence by killing people.\u201d He urged the Taliban to become a positive force and said \u201clet\u2019s put hands together to bring security across Afghanistan.\u201d \u201cAll people demand peace. Without peace, any development would be difficult but not impossible as you witnessed we managed to build [Afghanistan] although we sailed with a wrecked boat,\u201d Ghani stated. \u201cIf you (Taliban) don\u2019t have a plan and if you always make slogans, no one will be convinced; is there anyone who will be convinced by slogans? We challenge them. They should come to accept being an Afghan and Muslim,\u201d Ghani said.\u00a0 Meanwhile, a number of local reporters said that they were prevented from attending Ghani\u2019s meeting with Paktika\u2019s officials. They said this was in contradiction to the freedom of speech act and against the access to information code. \u201cWe all [reporters] have decided to boycott all provincial meetings and not to cover any of their events,\u201d said Khoshal Rahim, a journalist.\u00a0 Presidential Spokesperson Sediq Sediqqi, however, said that the government will address the issue with the local officials. \u201cWe will pursue this issue seriously with the Paktika Governor\u2019s Office to prevent a recurrence in the future,\u201d Sediqqi said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(ATN News): Addressing a gathering in Paktika on Saturday, Ghani said: \u201cTaliban are negative forces and they show their presence by killing people.\u201d He urged the Taliban to become a positive force and said \u201clet\u2019s put hands together to bring security across Afghanistan.\u201d \u201cAll people demand peace. Without peace, any development would be difficult but […]<\/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-3040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040","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=3040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3041,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions\/3041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}