{"id":12238,"date":"2026-05-05T11:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/05\/taliban-denies-plans-relocate-kabul-mandawi-market\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T11:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:45:19","slug":"taliban-denies-plans-relocate-kabul-mandawi-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/05\/taliban-denies-plans-relocate-kabul-mandawi-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Denies Any Decision to Relocate Kabul\u2019s Mandawi Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban\u2019s Ministry of Urban Development and Housing has announced that no decision has been made to relocate Kabul\u2019s Mandawi market to another area to reduce congestion. The ministry emphasized that reports published by some media outlets regarding this matter are incorrect.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released by the ministry, it was stated that there is currently no concrete plan to move Mandawi, and that such an issue is not included in the agency\u2019s work agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Mandawi is one of the oldest and busiest commercial areas in the capital, which has always experienced severe congestion. However, the Ministry of Urban Development stressed that no official decision has yet been made concerning the relocation of this commercial center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban&#8217;s Ministry of Urban Development denies any plans to relocate Kabul&#8217;s busy Mandawi market, calling recent media reports incorrect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12238","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\/12238","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=12238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}