{"id":20346,"date":"2026-08-25T11:40:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T11:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/25\/taliban-official-warns-unrest-in-paktia-in-talibans-name\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T11:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T11:40:20","slug":"taliban-official-warns-unrest-in-paktia-in-talibans-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/25\/taliban-official-warns-unrest-in-paktia-in-talibans-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban official warns of possible unrest in Paktia in Taliban&#8217;s name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban administration\u2019s acting minister of rural rehabilitation and development said some people may try to stir up rebellion in Afghanistan in the name of the Taliban, remarks made as he also stressed the continuation of \u201csecurity\u201d under the group\u2019s rule.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Latif Mansoor said on Wednesday at the launch of two construction projects in Paktia province that several neighbouring countries, he claimed, do not want lasting security, prosperity and economic growth in Afghanistan. He also said some individuals would try to create unrest \u201cin the name of the Taliban,\u201d but said the Taliban administration would not allow it.<\/p>\n<p>He further claimed that the current security in Afghanistan would remain in place as long as it is based on Sharia and the call to jihad.<\/p>\n<p>The comments came as Taliban officials have repeatedly spoken of security in the country, while at times also warning about security threats and the activities of armed opponents. Paktia is one of Afghanistan\u2019s southeastern provinces and borders Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban official warns some may stir unrest in Afghanistan in the group\u2019s name while stressing continued security under Taliban rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20346","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=20346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}