{"id":10930,"date":"2026-04-19T13:16:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/19\/taliban-border-police-regime-stability-public-consent\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T13:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:16:17","slug":"taliban-border-police-regime-stability-public-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/19\/taliban-border-police-regime-stability-public-consent\/","title":{"rendered":"Border Police Chief: Regime Stability Depends on Public Consent, Not Military Strength"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chief of Border Police at the Ministry of Interior of the Taliban administration, during a meeting with border police forces at Kabul International Airport, emphasized that the sustainability of any political system depends on the consent of the people, not on increasing the number of soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the border police personnel, he stated that a widespread military presence alone does not guarantee stability. What can make a political structure enduring is gaining the trust and approval of citizens. According to him, responsible behavior toward travelers and providing transparent services at border crossings are important factors in enhancing this public satisfaction.<\/p>\n<p>Kabul International Airport is one of the most important air entry points in the country, through which numerous citizens and foreign nationals travel daily. The performance of border police forces in this area directly affects public perception of how the Taliban administration is managed.<\/p>\n<p>However, amid extensive restrictions imposed on the social and civil lives of citizens, especially women, experts have repeatedly emphasized that achieving public consent requires practical actions and clear accountability to the demands of the people\u2014an objective that cannot be realized through mere verbal emphasis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban border police chief stresses regime stability depends on public trust, not military presence, amid growing restrictions in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930","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=10930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}