{"id":21086,"date":"2026-09-05T08:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T08:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/05\/taliban-foreign-aid-afghanistan-institutions-sharp-drop-humanitarian-needs\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T08:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T08:02:15","slug":"taliban-foreign-aid-afghanistan-institutions-sharp-drop-humanitarian-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/05\/taliban-foreign-aid-afghanistan-institutions-sharp-drop-humanitarian-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban administration reports sharp drop in foreign aid to institutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman for the Taliban administration, has reported a significant decline in foreign aid to institutions in Afghanistan, saying the people of Afghanistan still need humanitarian assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Mujahid said on the programme &#8220;Government in the Mirror of the Press&#8221; that the Taliban administration has not used the foreign aid allocated to institutions in Afghanistan. He did not provide further details on the scale of the reduction.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, despite the decline, the need for humanitarian aid remains. The remarks come as a large share of foreign aid in Afghanistan in recent years has been spent through relief agencies and institutions.<\/p>\n<p>In common usage in Afghanistan, &#8220;institutions&#8221; usually refers to domestic and foreign non-governmental and relief organisations working in areas such as humanitarian assistance, health, education and basic services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid says foreign aid to institutions in Afghanistan has fallen sharply, but humanitarian needs remain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21086","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=21086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}