{"id":12068,"date":"2025-06-02T01:42:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T21:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=12068"},"modified":"2025-06-02T01:42:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T21:12:57","slug":"taliban-to-close-salang-highway-to-trucks-after-eid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/taliban-to-close-salang-highway-to-trucks-after-eid\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban to close Salang Highway to trucks after Eid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12069\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/salangggg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">KABUL \u2013 The Taliban\u2019s Ministry of Public Works has announced that the Salang Highway, one of the country\u2019s most important transit routes, will be closed to trucks after Eid al-Adha for reconstruction work.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The restriction will begin on 2025 June 10 and will include all heavy trucks, according to the ministry\u2019s spokesman, Mohammad Ashraf Haqshenas.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">However, light vehicles, traders and drivers will be able to travel north to south and vice versa on a rotational basis, according to the Ministry of Public Works announcement.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Passenger vehicles of types 580, 303 and 404 have also been allowed to travel on the secondary route 24 hours a day.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Despite previous reconstruction efforts, the Salang Highway remains a challenging route for drivers and passengers; the mountainous route, natural erosion and heavy traffic load have made this highway one of the most accident-prone routes in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL \u2013 The Taliban\u2019s Ministry of Public Works has announced that the Salang Highway, one of the country\u2019s most important transit routes, will be closed to trucks after Eid al-Adha for reconstruction work. The restriction will begin on 2025 June 10 and will include all heavy trucks, according to the ministry\u2019s spokesman, Mohammad Ashraf Haqshenas. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12068","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=12068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12070,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12068\/revisions\/12070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}