{"id":20336,"date":"2026-08-25T11:15:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T11:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/25\/taliban-seizes-670-jeribs-of-land-in-mazar-i-sharif\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T11:15:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T11:15:22","slug":"taliban-seizes-670-jeribs-of-land-in-mazar-i-sharif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/25\/taliban-seizes-670-jeribs-of-land-in-mazar-i-sharif\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Says It Has Seized 670 Jeribs of Land in Mazar-i-Sharif"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban administration says it has seized 670 jeribs of land in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of Balkh province, in what is being described as part of its ongoing campaign to take control of land in different parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Barakatullah Rasooli, spokesman for the Taliban-run Ministry of Justice, said in a statement posted on X on Tuesday, 3 Sonbula, that the land is located in the &#8220;Khwadi project&#8221; in the ninth district of Mazar-i-Sharif.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the area was seized by the Taliban&#8217;s &#8220;Special Court for the Settlement of Stolen Land Cases.&#8221; The Taliban administration has not released further details about ownership of the land or how the move was carried out.<\/p>\n<p>A few days earlier, the Taliban administration also said it had seized nearly 300 jeribs of land in the &#8220;Mayar Mina&#8221; township of Mazar-i-Sharif. These announcements come as the Taliban, since returning to power, has repeatedly said it has taken thousands of jeribs of land in various Afghan provinces.<\/p>\n<p>Mazar-i-Sharif is the capital of Balkh province in northern Afghanistan, and in recent years a number of land dispute cases in the city have made headlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban says it has seized 670 jeribs of land in Mazar-i-Sharif, days after reporting another land takeover in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20336","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\/20336","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=20336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}