{"id":653,"date":"2024-01-04T09:20:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T09:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baano.tv\/index\/?p=653"},"modified":"2024-01-04T09:20:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T09:20:15","slug":"taliban-official-arrested-in-balkh-on-corruption-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baano.tv\/index\/en\/20240104653","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Official Arrested in Balkh on Corruption Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Local sources in Balkh province say that Mufti Nasir Ahmad Abu Khalid, head of the Taliban&#8217;s Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs in Balkh, has been arrested by the group&#8217;s intelligence agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the sources, the Taliban intelligence agency arrested him on charges of corruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mufti Nasir Ahmad is an Uzbek Taliban and a resident of the Sholghara district of Balkh province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Local Taliban officials in Balkh have not yet commented on the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This comes as a number of Taliban officials have been arrested on various charges by the group&#8217;s forces in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The arrest of Mufti Nasir Ahmad is a sign that the Taliban is cracking down on corruption within its ranks. The group has promised to fight corruption, but it has faced accusations of corruption itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Taliban has not yet commented on the arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local sources in Balkh province say that Mufti Nasir Ahmad Abu Khalid, head of the Taliban&#8217;s Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs in Balkh, has been arrested by the group&#8217;s intelligence agency. According to the sources, the Taliban intelligence agency arrested him on charges of corruption. Mufti Nasir Ahmad is an Uzbek Taliban and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-en","category-afghanistan-en","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baano.tv\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baano.tv\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baano.tv\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baano.tv\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baano.tv\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baano.tv\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654,"href":"https:\/\/baano.tv\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baano.tv\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baano.tv\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baano.tv\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}