{"id":19288,"date":"2026-08-08T15:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/08\/taliban-seize-26-historical-artifacts-paktika\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T15:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:45:19","slug":"taliban-seize-26-historical-artifacts-paktika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/08\/taliban-seize-26-historical-artifacts-paktika\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Authorities Seize 26 Historical Artifacts in Paktika Province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban Ministry of Interior has announced that security forces from the Paktika provincial police command have discovered and seized 26 historical artifacts along the Katuwaz route. According to the ministry, these items include pots, lamps, containers, and several other historical objects recovered from a resident of Malizo village in the Zargun Shahr district. Officials stated that the seized artifacts are to be officially registered and handed over to the Department of Information and Culture of Paktika province for preservation. Paktika, located in southeastern Afghanistan, is home to historical relics from various periods. However, concerns about smuggling and destruction of cultural heritage in remote provinces have long been an issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban forces in Paktika have seized 26 historical artifacts, including pots and lamps, to be preserved by local cultural authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19288","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=19288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}