{"id":40046,"date":"2021-08-11T23:10:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T23:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=40046"},"modified":"2021-08-11T23:10:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T23:10:08","slug":"afghanistan-war-do-the-taliban-want-to-conquer-or-compromise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=40046","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan war: Do the Taliban want to conquer or compromise?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Tens of thousands of ordinary people have had to flee their homes \u2013 with hundreds killed or injured in recent weeks \u2013 as Taliban insurgents continue to gain ground in Afghanistan. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">As foreign troops withdraw, many Afghans fear a brutal return to the regime of the 1990s, which was characterised by public executions, stonings and girls being banned from school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">But what do the Taliban want from Afghanistan now?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The BBC&#8217;s Yalda Hakim has been to speak to two high profile figures in its chain of command \u2013 and heard two very different messages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-58181670\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of thousands of ordinary people have had to flee their homes \u2013 with hundreds killed or injured in recent weeks \u2013 as Taliban insurgents continue to gain ground in Afghanistan. As foreign troops withdraw, many Afghans fear a brutal return to the regime of the 1990s, which was characterised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40046","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\/08\/119899576_p09s00gp.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40046","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=40046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}