{"id":25935,"date":"2026-11-12T19:01:42","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T19:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/12\/taliban-renames-kandahar-kandahar-sharif\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T19:01:42","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T19:01:42","slug":"taliban-renames-kandahar-kandahar-sharif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/12\/taliban-renames-kandahar-kandahar-sharif\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Government Renames Kandahar Province to &#8216;Kandahar Sharif&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to local sources cited by 8 Sobh newspaper, the Taliban administration has ordered the renaming of Kandahar province to &#8220;Kandahar Sharif.&#8221; This directive, reportedly issued about a year ago by Mullah Hibatullah, the leader of the Taliban administration, has been officially communicated by the Taliban governor of Kandahar to relevant departments to use the new name in all official documents and signboards.<\/p>\n<p>Sources added that following the issuance of this order, signboards in several areas of Kandahar province have publicly been changed to &#8220;Kandahar Sharif.&#8221; This move has drawn humorous and critical reactions from some social media users, especially considering the fundamental problems faced by the people of Kandahar, with symbolic changes like renaming provinces attracting attention.<\/p>\n<p>The name change comes amid severe economic, security, and service challenges across many provinces of Afghanistan under Taliban rule, increasing criticism regarding the administration&#8217;s priorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban government renames Kandahar province to &#8216;Kandahar Sharif&#8217; amid ongoing economic and security challenges in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25935","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\/25935","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=25935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}