{"id":87542,"date":"2025-10-01T15:10:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=87542"},"modified":"2025-10-01T15:10:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:10:20","slug":"taliban-rejects-reports-of-afghanistan-internet-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/taliban-rejects-reports-of-afghanistan-internet-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban rejects reports of Afghanistan Internet ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Taliban government on Wednesday rejected reports of a nationwide Internet ban in Afghanistan, saying old fiber optic cables are worn out and are being replaced.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was the Taliban\u2019s first public statement on a communications blackout that has disrupted banking, commerce and aviation.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, several provinces confirmed an Internet shutdown because of a decree from the Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada to combat immorality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is nothing like the rumors being spread that we have imposed a ban on the Internet,\u201d Taliban officials said in a three-line statement in a chat group with Pakistani journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Taliban government on Wednesday rejected reports of a nationwide Internet ban in Afghanistan, saying old fiber optic cables are worn out and are being replaced. The announcement was the Taliban\u2019s first public statement on a communications blackout that has disrupted banking, commerce and aviation. Last month, several provinces confirmed an Internet shutdown &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":87554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87555,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87542\/revisions\/87555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}