{"id":12819,"date":"2025-08-06T05:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T01:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=12819"},"modified":"2025-08-06T05:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T01:21:10","slug":"moral-corruption-at-high-levels-of-the-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/moral-corruption-at-high-levels-of-the-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"Moral corruption at high levels of the Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12812\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/balkh-danishgah-rasiss.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Moral corruption at high levels of the Taliban; symbolic treatment of the president of Balkh University.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Internal Taliban sources have confirmed that Maulvi Zia-ul-Haq Karimi, the former president of Balkh University, has been removed from his position due to committing an immoral act.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>According to a released video, Karimi is seen talking to security personnel about the presence of a girl in his house.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>According to sources, this incident happened some time ago, but after it was exposed, the only change that took place was his transfer to another position in the same university.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>This reactionary treatment has once again intensified criticism of the lack of accountability in the structure of the Islamic Emirate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Some say that such behavior not only undermines public trust, but is also a sign of a double standard in dealing with corruption among the group&#8217;s officials.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>In recent years, similar cases of moral corruption among Taliban officials have been reported, but they have often ended without prosecution or serious consequences.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moral corruption at high levels of the Taliban; symbolic treatment of the president of Balkh University. Internal Taliban sources have confirmed that Maulvi Zia-ul-Haq Karimi, the former president of Balkh University, has been removed from his position due to committing an immoral act. According to a released video, Karimi is seen talking to security personnel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultural","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12819","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=12819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12820,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12819\/revisions\/12820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}