{"id":80294,"date":"2015-08-26T15:39:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T15:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/azra-finally-connected-to-logar-after-eight-years\/"},"modified":"2015-08-26T15:39:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T15:39:58","slug":"azra-finally-connected-to-logar-after-eight-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/azra-finally-connected-to-logar-after-eight-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Azra finally connected to Logar after eight years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PUL-I-ALAM (SW): The road leading to eastern Logar&rsquo;s restive district Azra has finally been cleared of militants after eight long years, officials said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Officials told SW that at first, the law enforcement agencies conducted clean-up operations against the militants and then the Ministry of Public Works (MoPW) helped re-construct the road connecting this district to the provincial capital Pul-i-Alam.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Salim Saleh, the Spokesman for the Provincial Governor said that general public can now move with liberty on this road without any fear of the militants. &ldquo;More than eighty percent of the development work has been finished, it would be officially inaugurated soon&rdquo;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Shahzada Tauhid, a resident on the eastern Azra district said people feel happy about the development. Brid. Gen. Abdul Raziq Safi, a local Afghan National Army (ANA) Commander added that the army plans to erect a number of check posts on the 56 kilometer long highway connecting Azara to the provincial capital.<\/p>\n<p>Azra is located in the eastern part of the province and is at around 140 km from the capital&nbsp;Kabul. The district is geographically isolated from the capital of Logar.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUL-I-ALAM (SW): The road leading to eastern Logar\u2019s restive district Azra has finally been cleared of militants after eight long years, officials said on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-80294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}