{"id":1071,"date":"2025-10-23T10:43:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T10:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/10\/23\/taliban-appoints-abdul-haq-hamkar-public-works-ministry\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T10:43:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T10:43:20","slug":"taliban-appoints-abdul-haq-hamkar-public-works-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/10\/23\/taliban-appoints-abdul-haq-hamkar-public-works-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Appoints Former Counter-Narcotics Official to Finance Role in Public Works Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban administration has appointed Mullah Abdul Haq Hamkar, a former deputy minister for counter-narcotics at the Ministry of Interior, as the new Deputy Minister for Finance and Administration at the Ministry of Public Works.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was made following a decree issued by the Taliban leader on 19 Rabi al-Thani 1447 in the Islamic calendar. An official introduction ceremony was held in the presence of several figures affiliated with the ministry.<\/p>\n<p>In his speech at the ceremony, Mullah Abdul Haq described the Taliban-led government as a &#8220;system born of jihad&#8221; and called for loyalty to it. He emphasized that all members of the ministry are responsible for &#8220;serving the people,&#8221; despite widespread public complaints about injustice, rampant poverty, and the collapse of public service infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban appoints Mullah Abdul Haq Hamkar, a former counter-narcotics official, as deputy finance minister amid criticism over poor public services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}