{"id":14490,"date":"2025-12-06T00:38:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T20:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=14490"},"modified":"2025-12-06T00:38:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T20:08:28","slug":"criticism-of-forced-collection-of-safai-fees-with-armed-personnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/criticism-of-forced-collection-of-safai-fees-with-armed-personnel\/","title":{"rendered":"Criticism of Forced Collection of \u201cSafai\u201d Fees with Armed Personnel."},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14495\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/afgh-mazareed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/afgh-mazareed.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/afgh-mazareed-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/afgh-mazareed-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/afgh-mazareed-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/afgh-mazareed-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Criticism of Forced Collection of \u201cSafai\u201d Fees with Armed Personnel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Residents of Khalid Town in Mazar-i-Sharif say that municipal employees, acting outside official administrative procedures, have been visiting people\u2019s homes to collect a fee known as \u201cSafai.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong> According to them, this practice began several days ago and has caused significant concern and dissatisfaction among citizens.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Some residents report that certain individuals dispatched by the municipality are armed and use weapons to pressure people. They stress that the municipality is a civil institution, and the presence of armed personnel in this process contradicts the nature and rules of the institution.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Residents add that despite severe economic hardships and high unemployment, they are being asked to pay the \u201cSafai\u201d fee within a set period. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>They say that municipal employees, by issuing repeated deadlines and warnings, have created an anxious environment and effectively forced citizens to make payments.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Criticism of Forced Collection of \u201cSafai\u201d Fees with Armed Personnel. Residents of Khalid Town in Mazar-i-Sharif say that municipal employees, acting outside official administrative procedures, have been visiting people\u2019s homes to collect a fee known as \u201cSafai.\u201d According to them, this practice began several days ago and has caused significant concern and dissatisfaction among citizens. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14490","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\/14490","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=14490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14500,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14490\/revisions\/14500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}