{"id":61122,"date":"2019-05-12T12:10:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T12:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=61122"},"modified":"2019-05-12T12:10:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T12:10:47","slug":"former-journalist-and-advisor-to-afghan-parliament-shot-dead-in-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/former-journalist-and-advisor-to-afghan-parliament-shot-dead-in-kabul\/","title":{"rendered":"Former journalist and advisor to Afghan Parliament shot dead in Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A  former journalist who worked for the Afghan parliament was shot and  killed in Kabul on Saturday, an official said, in the latest brazen  attack to rock Afghanistan\u2019s capital.Mena Mangal was well known in Kabul  circles for her work presenting shows on several television networks,  before she left journalism to become a cultural advisor to parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According\n to interior ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi, Mangal was gunned down in\n eastern Kabul in broad daylight.An investigation was under way, but he \ndid not provide further details.Crime in Kabul has grown steadily worse \nin recent years, adding to the many stresses for residents in a city \nwhere terrorist attacks are a frequent occurrence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prominent \nwomen\u2019s rights activist Wazhma Frogh said Mangal had recently written on\n social media that she felt her life was threatened.The plight of women \nin Afghanistan has been pulled into focus in recent months, as many in \nthe war-torn country worry that hard-won rights for women will be lost \nif the US makes a peace deal with the Taliban.Despite advances since the Taliban\u2019s ouster in 2001, women in Afghanistan are still frequently marginalized.\n\n<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former journalist who worked for the Afghan parliament was shot and killed in Kabul on Saturday, an official said, in the latest brazen attack to rock Afghanistan\u2019s capital.Mena Mangal was well known in Kabul circles for her work presenting shows on several television networks, before she left journalism to become a cultural advisor to [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61124,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61122\/revisions\/61124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}