{"id":12247,"date":"2025-06-21T01:24:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T20:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=12247"},"modified":"2025-06-21T01:24:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T20:54:04","slug":"haqqani-taliban-did-not-fight-for-power-but-today-power-is-used-for-repression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/haqqani-taliban-did-not-fight-for-power-but-today-power-is-used-for-repression\/","title":{"rendered":"Haqqani: Taliban did not fight for power; but today power is used for repression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12248\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/haqini.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Taliban\u2019s interior minister, said at a gathering in Paktia that the Taliban did not fight to gain power, but rather aimed to \u201cconsolidate Sharia\u201d and \u201cfight corruption.\u201d However, the facts show otherwise.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Since returning to power, the Taliban have focused on social restrictions rather than addressing the people\u2019s problems, and have put society in a bind by suppressing women, silencing dissent, and massively reducing the number of government employees.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Haqqani has also considered loyalty to the Taliban leader as a condition for loyalty to the system, while he himself had implicitly criticized the group\u2019s leader\u2019s performance in the past.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Despite promises of development, Taliban development projects have also been halted or delayed due to internal disputes and lack of funding. On the other hand, in a new report, the UN Secretary-General accused the Taliban of arbitrary arrests and killings of former government officials and described the humanitarian situation in the country as dire.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Taliban\u2019s interior minister, said at a gathering in Paktia that the Taliban did not fight to gain power, but rather aimed to \u201cconsolidate Sharia\u201d and \u201cfight corruption.\u201d However, the facts show otherwise. Since returning to power, the Taliban have focused on social restrictions rather than addressing the people\u2019s problems, and have put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12247","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\/12247","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=12247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12249,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12247\/revisions\/12249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}