{"id":82972,"date":"2016-10-01T05:30:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T05:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/arms-and-ammunition-sell-openly-in-paktika\/"},"modified":"2016-10-01T05:30:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T05:30:13","slug":"arms-and-ammunition-sell-openly-in-paktika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/arms-and-ammunition-sell-openly-in-paktika\/","title":{"rendered":"Arms and ammunition sell openly in Paktika"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"385\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/10 October\/1 Oct\/weapons (3).jpg\" width=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p>SHARANA (SW): It has been a while since small and medium arms and ammunition sell openly in the Barmal district of southeastern Paktika province.<\/p>\n<p>Locals and members of the provincial council have told Salam Watandar that the militants have been causing havoc in the province with supplies from this restive district. A resident of this district lying on the edge of the Durand Line with the South Wazirisitan said: &ldquo;One can buy rockets that can hit target at a distance of some 120 meters, machineguns, vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) and even suicide vests&rdquo;. Another local said that if the government really wants to bring peace in the province, it should dismantle this market. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bakhtyar Gul Himmat, chairman of the provincial council has confirmed that the Laman area of the district is notorious for arms&rsquo; trade. &ldquo;All sorts of arms and ammunitions are on sale here&rdquo;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Local officials however, assert that all these claims are not true. Mohammad Ilyas Wahdat, the provincial governor has also rejected the reports about open sale of arms and ammunition&nbsp;in the province. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t say that not a single militant is present here but there are absolutely no large groups active here. There are no arms&rsquo; depots in Barmal, these are just baseless rumors&rdquo;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>END<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHARANA (SW): It has been a while since small and medium arms and ammunition sell openly in the Barmal district of southeastern Paktika province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-82972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82972","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=82972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}