{"id":19370,"date":"2026-08-09T14:01:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T14:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/09\/paktia-taliban-prepares-victory-day-24-asad\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T14:01:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T14:01:31","slug":"paktia-taliban-prepares-victory-day-24-asad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/09\/paktia-taliban-prepares-victory-day-24-asad\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Administration in Paktia Begins Preparations for &#8216;Victory Day&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Information and Culture in Paktia has announced the commencement of preparations to hold events in the province for the upcoming fifth anniversary of 24 Asad, known as &#8220;Victory Day.&#8221; According to officials from this department, part of the preparations includes printing and installing special banners at various locations throughout the city, as well as writing historical and national messages on city walls. Mawlawi Faizullah Johari, head of the Department of Information and Culture in Paktia, stated that the purpose of these measures is to raise public awareness about the historical significance of 24 Asad, keep the memory of this day alive, and prepare the city for the special ceremonies. The Taliban administration refers to 24 Asad as the day of their return to power and commemorates this occasion annually with events held across various provinces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paktia&#8217;s Taliban-led government begins preparations for the fifth anniversary of Victory Day on 24 Asad, including banners and public messages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19370","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=19370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}