{"id":22418,"date":"2026-09-22T12:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T12:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/22\/afghan-boxing-referee-khyber-sultani-china-international-boxing-festival\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T12:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T12:15:16","slug":"afghan-boxing-referee-khyber-sultani-china-international-boxing-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/22\/afghan-boxing-referee-khyber-sultani-china-international-boxing-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Boxing Referee Khyber Sultani Heads to China for International Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Khyber Sultani, Afghanistan&#8217;s national and international boxing referee, has travelled to Xinjiang, China, to officiate at the ninth International Boxing Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Sports officials said the competition will be held in China from September 21 to 30, and Sultani will serve as a referee at the event in cooperation with the International Boxing Association and Afghanistan&#8217;s General Directorate of Physical Education and Sports.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Afghanistan&#8217;s national boxing team, which had already arrived in China, has completed a two-day training camp and has prepared for its participation in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, the Afghan team will take part in the international festival with a squad of seven athletes, two coaches and one administrative board member.<\/p>\n<p>Xinjiang is a region in western China, and international sporting events have been hosted there before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan referee Khyber Sultani travels to China to officiate at the ninth International Boxing Festival in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22418","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=22418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}