{"id":20400,"date":"2026-08-26T08:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T08:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/26\/taliban-kabul-expansion-bagrami-chahar-asyab\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T08:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T08:15:16","slug":"taliban-kabul-expansion-bagrami-chahar-asyab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/26\/taliban-kabul-expansion-bagrami-chahar-asyab\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Administration Announces Expansion of Kabul City Limits with Annexation of Bagrami and Chahar Asyab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kabul municipality under Taliban administration has announced that the districts of Bagrami and Chahar Asyab will be merged with Kabul city under a plan to expand the capital, and will be included within the city\u2019s district boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>Nematullah Barakzai, a representative of the Kabul municipality, said Kabul currently has 22 districts and that with the addition of Bagrami and Chahar Asyab, the city\u2019s administrative area will expand further.<\/p>\n<p>He also claimed that in recent years Kabul has made significant progress in urban development and the construction of high-rise buildings. However, he did not provide further information on the exact time the plan will be implemented or on its administrative details.<\/p>\n<p>Bagrami and Chahar Asyab are districts of Kabul province on the outskirts of Kabul city, and their annexation, if carried out, will alter the administrative map of the capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban-run Kabul municipality says Bagrami and Chahar Asyab will be merged into the capital under a city expansion plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20400","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=20400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}