{"id":15068,"date":"2026-01-12T22:24:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=15068"},"modified":"2026-01-12T22:24:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:54:45","slug":"takhar-residents-under-pressure-taliban-commander-sparks-public-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/takhar-residents-under-pressure-taliban-commander-sparks-public-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"Takhar Residents Under Pressure; Taliban Commander Sparks Public Concern."},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15077\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/atakharreedw.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/atakharreedw.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/atakharreedw-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/atakharreedw-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/atakharreedw-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/atakharreedw-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Takhar Residents Under Pressure; Taliban Commander Sparks Public Concern.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Atiqullah Osama, a Taliban military commander in Takhar, recently warned local residents to identify young people and individuals opposing the Taliban and report them to security authorities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>His statements have drawn widespread concern and backlash among residents and anti-Taliban activists.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Resistance-affiliated sources in Takhar warned that governance through coercion, arrests, and repression is unsustainable, citing Afghanistan\u2019s history as evidence.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>They emphasized that Afghanistan, a nation of millions with rich historical experiences, cannot be governed permanently by any group relying on force and compulsion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Local observers note that these statements coincide with heightened security pressures and targeted arrests in several Takhar districts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Critics warn that such measures could exacerbate social distrust, local vendettas, and violations of citizens\u2019 rights, undermining genuine security despite the Taliban\u2019s public claims of ensuring stability.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Takhar Residents Under Pressure; Taliban Commander Sparks Public Concern. Atiqullah Osama, a Taliban military commander in Takhar, recently warned local residents to identify young people and individuals opposing the Taliban and report them to security authorities. His statements have drawn widespread concern and backlash among residents and anti-Taliban activists. Resistance-affiliated sources in Takhar warned that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15068","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=15068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15086,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15068\/revisions\/15086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}