{"id":24158,"date":"2026-10-18T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T09:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/18\/afghanistan-neighbours-economic-pressure-oppression\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T09:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T09:00:16","slug":"afghanistan-neighbours-economic-pressure-oppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/18\/afghanistan-neighbours-economic-pressure-oppression\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbours Must Stop Economic Pressure and Oppression of Afghans, Official Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noorulhaq Anwar, head of the General Directorate of Affairs, said at a special event marking Afghanistan Red Crescent Week that healthy neighbourly relations should be based on reducing problems and offering assistance, not imposing economic pressure or confrontation.<\/p>\n<p>Without directly naming any country, he added that neighbours are still subjecting the people of Afghanistan to oppression, suppression and economic deprivation.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks come as the Taliban administration continues to face economic restrictions and regional pressure that have a direct impact on people&#8217;s livelihoods.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghanistan Red Crescent is marking the week at a time when the needs and problems of the people of Afghanistan are increasing day by day because of external and internal sanctions and restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Afghan official says neighbours should stop economic pressure and oppression against Afghans as hardships deepen under sanctions and restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24158","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\/24158","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=24158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}