{"id":75950,"date":"2018-08-18T17:05:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T12:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=75950"},"modified":"2018-08-18T17:05:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T12:05:44","slug":"oic-calls-on-afghan-rivals-for-peace-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=75950","title":{"rendered":"OIC calls on Afghan Rivals for peace talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kabul, August 18 (TNS): Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) urged\u00a0 the Afghani Rivals on Saturday to engage in peace talks and end hostilities once and for all.<\/p>\n<p>OIC Secretary General Yousuf Al-Othaimeen said in a statement that his &#8220;growing concern on ever rising collateral casualties among civilian population&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>At least 500 Taliban fighters, 145 security personnel and 60 civilians were killed in four-day long clashes in the city of Ghazni earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere can be no military solution in Afghanistan. Time is long overdue for a lasting political settlement,\u201d Al-Othaimeen said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMuslim Ummah (nation) expects and hopes that the Afghan Government\u2019s unconditional offer for a negotiated solution finds response among the armed opposition,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The violence came amid reports about ongoing efforts to hold peace talks between the Afghan government and Taliban to end the conflict in the war-torn country.<\/p>\n<p>Afghan government\u2019s Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah confirmed last month, in the first official reaction, that a meeting had taken place between the U.S. and the Taliban to initiate the peace process.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Kabul, August 18 (TNS): Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) urged\u00a0 the Afghani Rivals on Saturday to engage in peace talks and end hostilities once and for all. OIC Secretary General Yousuf Al-Othaimeen said in a statement that his &#8220;growing concern on ever rising collateral casualties among civilian population&#8221;. At least 500 Taliban fighters, 145 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75950","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=75950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75952,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75950\/revisions\/75952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}