{"id":6262,"date":"2026-02-07T11:58:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T11:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/07\/salang-highway-reopens-after-snow-clearance\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T11:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T11:58:20","slug":"salang-highway-reopens-after-snow-clearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/07\/salang-highway-reopens-after-snow-clearance\/","title":{"rendered":"Salang Highway Reopens After Snow Clearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban-run Ministry of Public Works has announced that the Salang Highway has been reopened to traffic following snow clearance operations, with passenger vehicle movement returning to normal on this route.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Ashraf Haqshenas, the ministry&#8217;s spokesperson, stated that the passage of cargo vehicles from north to south through the Salang route is now also permitted. This route plays a vital role in connecting the northern provinces with the capital.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, snow clearance efforts have not been limited to Salang alone and have continued in several other provinces.<\/p>\n<p>Based on information from the Ministry of Public Works, some roads in the provinces of Bamyan, Maidan Wardak, Sar-e Pol, and Ghor have also been cleared of snow and reopened to traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban-run Ministry of Public Works reopens Salang Highway and other provincial roads after snow clearance, restoring normal traffic flow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262","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=6262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}