{"id":3855,"date":"2014-09-29T07:39:52","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T07:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3855"},"modified":"2014-09-29T07:39:52","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T07:39:52","slug":"ashraf-ghani-sworn-in-as-afghan-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/09\/29\/3855\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashraf Ghani sworn in as Afghan president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/ashrafGhani.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>Ashraf Ghani has been sworn is as the new president of Afghanistan in a lavish ceremony at the presidential palace in Kabul, ending months of turmoil over a fraud tainted election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The former finance minister was inaugurated in a grand event on Monday marking the country&#8217;s first democratic transfer of power since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;I am not better than anyone from among you. If I do any good, give me your support. If I go wrong, set me right,&#8221; Ghani said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ghani succeeds Hamid Karzai after a three-month standoff over disputed election results that fuelled tensions with local leaders and worsened Afghanistan&#8217;s dire economic outlook.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Both Ghani and his poll rival Abdullah Abdullah claimed to have won the fraud-tainted June 14 election, plunging Afghanistan into a crisis that threatened to trigger nationwide unrest.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But, under heavy pressure from the US and UN, the two candidates eventually agreed to form a national unity government, and Ghani was declared president after an audit of nearly eight million ballot papers.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Moments after Ghani took the oath, Abdullah was sworn in as chief executive, a new role with powers similar to those of a prime minister that was created to break the election deadlock. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Afghan historian, Helena Malikyar, told Al Jazeera it was a &#8220;bitter-sweet day for most Afghans&#8221;.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;The economy is in shambles, foreign aid has frozen, development has stopped and and crime has risen tremendously&#8221; Malikyar said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Afghanistan&#8217;s security problems were underlined in the run up to the event when the Taliban launched a series of attacks, including a suicide attack on a local government headquarters in the eastern Paktia province, killing 10 people.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;We made a lot of effort to bring about a long-lasting peace, but unfortunately our hopes did not fully materialise, but I should say that peace will surely come,&#8221; Karzai said in an emotional farewell speech to the nation late Sunday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;I will transfer government responsibilities to the elected president tomorrow and will start my new life as a citizen of Afghanistan.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;I will strongly support the new president, the government and the constitution and will be at their service.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source: <em><strong>Al Jazeera<\/strong> <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashraf Ghani has been sworn is as the new president of Afghanistan in a lavish ceremony at the presidential palace in Kabul, ending months of turmoil over a fraud tainted election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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