{"id":22953,"date":"2011-08-11T10:21:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T17:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=22953"},"modified":"2011-08-11T10:21:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T17:21:45","slug":"uk-telegraph-hamid-karzai-says-he-will-not-seek-third-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2011\/08\/11\/uk-telegraph-hamid-karzai-says-he-will-not-seek-third-term\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Telegraph: Hamid Karzai says he will not seek third term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Karzai said he would abide by the constitution&#8217;s demand that he step down when his second five-year term concludes in 2014 \u2013 just as Nato hands over security responsibilities to the Afghan state.<\/p>\n<p>He had begun the search for a successor, he added.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the presidential palace said he had announced his intentions to a gathering of MPs in response to &#8220;rumours&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition leaders have long accused Mr Karzai of a plot to either rewrite the constitution and secure his leadership, or hand over to a family member and turn the presidency into a dynasty. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/asia\/afghanistan\/8695924\/Hamid-Karzai-says-he-will-not-seek-third-term.html\">Read the full article here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Karzai said he would abide by the constitution&#8217;s demand that he step down when his second five-year term concludes in 2014 \u2013 just as Nato hands over security responsibilities to the Afghan state. He had begun the search for a successor, he added. A statement from the presidential palace said he had announced his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}