{"id":17613,"date":"2026-07-15T11:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T11:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/15\/taliban-deputy-minister-paktia-elders-infrastructure-issues\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T11:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T11:02:24","slug":"taliban-deputy-minister-paktia-elders-infrastructure-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/15\/taliban-deputy-minister-paktia-elders-infrastructure-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Deputy Minister Meets Paktia Elders, Promises to Address Local Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mullah Abdul Latif Mansoor, Deputy Minister for Rural Rehabilitation and Development of the Taliban administration, met with a group of tribal elders from Tsamkani district in Paktia province at his Kabul office. During the meeting, the local representatives voiced complaints about the lack of attention in past years, citing shortages of retaining walls and the absence of standard roads in the district. They called for practical cooperation from the ministry.<\/p>\n<p>According to the elders, the lack of basic infrastructure has caused serious problems for residents in travel and security. They emphasized that Tsamkani district has been neglected in development projects and now urgently requires attention.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the Deputy Minister said the ministry is &#8220;at the service of the people&#8221; and, considering available resources, will take measures to address the mentioned issues. He promised that the requests would be reviewed and pursued within the ministry\u2019s financial and technical capacities.<\/p>\n<p>However, residents from many provinces across the country have repeatedly complained in recent years about the slow pace or halt of development projects. It is expected that the Taliban administration will complement its official statements with practical, scheduled programs to eliminate infrastructural deprivation in remote areas, thereby strengthening public trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban&#8217;s Deputy Minister meets Paktia elders, promises to address infrastructure issues and improve development projects in Tsamkani district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17613","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\/17613","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=17613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}