{"id":11983,"date":"2025-05-27T01:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T21:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=11983"},"modified":"2025-05-27T01:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T21:10:11","slug":"crisis-in-badakhshan-protest-against-talibans-repressive-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/crisis-in-badakhshan-protest-against-talibans-repressive-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Crisis in Badakhshan; Protest against Taliban\u2019s repressive policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11980\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Badakhsan-eteraz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Local sources in Badakhshan report that following violent clashes between the Taliban and farmers in the Jurm district, a wave of public discontent has emerged, with a number of protesters demanding the removal of Qari Ayub Khalid, the Taliban governor in the province.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to the sources, the local people, especially the farmers, are fed up with the Taliban\u2019s harsh treatment of poppy fields. The protesters have given the group a week to change the governor and have demanded that the next governor be from the people of Badakhshan.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Meanwhile, the local Taliban have also supported the people\u2019s demand and in some cases have stood up to the central forces.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Taliban\u2019s anti-drug campaign, which is mostly fueled by repression and violence, has not only resulted in the destruction of farms, but also has cost the lives of a number of civilians.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">So far, the Taliban have remained officially silent on these protests.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Badakhshan has become a hotbed of popular discontent against Taliban rule in recent years, where policies imposed by non-local Taliban are met with widespread resistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local sources in Badakhshan report that following violent clashes between the Taliban and farmers in the Jurm district, a wave of public discontent has emerged, with a number of protesters demanding the removal of Qari Ayub Khalid, the Taliban governor in the province. According to the sources, the local people, especially the farmers, are fed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11984,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11983\/revisions\/11984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}