{"id":45201,"date":"2018-01-18T13:39:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T08:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=45201"},"modified":"2018-01-18T13:39:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T08:39:10","slug":"afghan-army-will-not-last-over-6-months-without-us-support-ghani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=45201","title":{"rendered":"Afghan army will not last over 6 months without US support: Ghani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL Jan 18 (TNS):<\/strong> Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has said that the Afghan National Army will not last more than six months without US support and the Afghan government will also collapse.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with CBS News, the Afghan President acknowledged his government\u2019s absolute dependence on Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Gen John Nicholson, the commander of US forces in Afghanistan has said in the same programme that with America\u2019s new strategy he was certain to win the longest war in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>In a report titled \u201cKabul under siege while America\u2019s longest war rages on\u201d, the US news channel noted that the sixteen years long Afghan war has cost 2,400 American lives besides one trillion dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The US contributes around 90 per cent of Afghanistan\u2019s defence budget.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL Jan 18 (TNS): Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has said that the Afghan National Army will not last more than six months without US support and the Afghan government will also collapse. In an interview with CBS News, the Afghan President acknowledged his government\u2019s absolute dependence on Washington. Meanwhile, Gen John Nicholson, the commander of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[381,23],"tags":[264,589],"class_list":["post-45201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kabul-world","category-national","tag-kabul","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45203,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45201\/revisions\/45203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}