{"id":13676,"date":"2026-05-25T11:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/25\/baghlan-highways-reopened-after-flooding\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T11:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:39:19","slug":"baghlan-highways-reopened-after-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/25\/baghlan-highways-reopened-after-flooding\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Highways in Baghlan Reopened After Flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The spokesperson for the Taliban&#8217;s Ministry of Public Works has announced that several major highways in Baghlan province, which were blocked due to heavy rains and flooding, have been reopened to traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Ashraf Haqshenas stated that the Baghlan-Kunduz main highway, Khanjan-Banu road, and several other routes that had been closed due to destruction and accumulation of mud have been cleared of obstacles and are now ready for vehicle passage.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, technical teams carried out cleaning and preliminary reconstruction work on these routes after the floodwaters receded to restore transportation between districts and neighboring provinces.<\/p>\n<p>Baghlan province, located in northern Afghanistan, is one of the areas frequently at risk of flooding and road closures during the rainy season; a recurring issue that affects residents&#8217; lives and the transportation of commercial goods every year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several major highways in Baghlan province reopened after severe flooding, restoring key transportation routes affected by heavy rains and mudslides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13676","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=13676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}