{"id":19438,"date":"2026-08-10T11:02:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T11:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/10\/yaftal-chief-accuses-taliban-opponents-aligning-former-enemy\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T11:02:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T11:02:25","slug":"yaftal-chief-accuses-taliban-opponents-aligning-former-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/10\/yaftal-chief-accuses-taliban-opponents-aligning-former-enemy\/","title":{"rendered":"Yaftal District Chief Accuses Taliban Opponents of Aligning with &#8216;Former Enemy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abdul Qadeer Ghafoori, the district chief of Yaftal in Badakhshan province, accused opponents of the Taliban administration of aligning themselves with a country they previously called an &#8220;enemy&#8221; during a public gathering.<\/p>\n<p>He described this approach as &#8220;shamelessness and audacity&#8221; and claimed that critics and opponents of the Taliban administration had changed their stance.<\/p>\n<p>These remarks come amid a political environment in the country marked by extensive restrictions on political and civil activities, where any open opposition to the Taliban administration faces severe reactions from its officials.<\/p>\n<p>Yaftal district is part of Badakhshan province in northeastern Afghanistan, a region that has witnessed tensions and protests against some Taliban decisions in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abdul Qadeer Ghafoori, Yaftal district chief, accuses Taliban critics of aligning with a former enemy amid political restrictions in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19438","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\/19438","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=19438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}