{"id":38514,"date":"2021-07-20T10:32:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T10:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=38514"},"modified":"2021-07-20T10:32:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T10:32:49","slug":"eid-al-adha-prayers-continue-as-rockets-fired-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=38514","title":{"rendered":"Eid al-Adha prayers continue as rockets fired in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Rockets could be heard exploding nearby during prayers in Afghanistan to mark the start of the Muslim festival Eid al-Adha.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Worship at the presidential palace in Kabul continued despite the attack, with some appearing frightened and unsure of what to do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The prayers were being broadcast live and President Ashraf Ghani was in attendance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The attack came amid a rise in violence in the country, as foreign troops withdraw after 20 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-57767067\" class=\"ssrcss-9nsdc6-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Life in Afghanistan after America leaves<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-57900618\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rockets could be heard exploding nearby during prayers in Afghanistan to mark the start of the Muslim festival Eid al-Adha. Worship at the presidential palace in Kabul continued despite the attack, with some appearing frightened and unsure of what to do. The prayers were being broadcast live and President Ashraf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/119496192_p09pxkgn.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}