{"id":24194,"date":"2026-10-18T14:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T14:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/18\/taliban-ministry-chief-urges-ethnic-bias-free-discipline\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T14:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T14:46:15","slug":"taliban-ministry-chief-urges-ethnic-bias-free-discipline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/18\/taliban-ministry-chief-urges-ethnic-bias-free-discipline\/","title":{"rendered":"Acting Ministry Chief Urges Staff to Avoid Ethnic Bias and Observe Office Discipline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheikh Mohammad Khalid Hanafi, the acting minister for the Taliban-run Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, said at a meeting that the ministry\u2019s employees must avoid any ethnic, linguistic or personal bias in carrying out their duties and arrive at work on time.<\/p>\n<p>He also called for professional and Islamic treatment of the public and timely attention to their problems, saying that discipline and accountability are among the ministry\u2019s key principles.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks come as the ministry had previously held meetings aimed at improving administrative discipline, preventing wrongdoing, strengthening accountability and raising the quality of services to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Despite repeated emphasis, concerns have been raised about the persistence of some inconsistencies and biases in the ministry\u2019s administrative performance, which could have a negative impact on service delivery to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban acting minister calls on staff to avoid ethnic bias, maintain discipline and improve public services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24194","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\/24194","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=24194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}