{"id":84866,"date":"2017-05-23T08:58:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T08:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/taliban-s-siege-leads-to-closure-of-schools-in-nuristan\/"},"modified":"2017-05-23T08:58:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T08:58:24","slug":"taliban-s-siege-leads-to-closure-of-schools-in-nuristan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/taliban-s-siege-leads-to-closure-of-schools-in-nuristan\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban s siege leads to closure of schools in Nuristan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"375\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2017\/May\/23\/Zabul Schools.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PARUN (SW): Authorities in Want-Waiygal district of Nuristan province have closed down 6 schools due to possible Taliban attack on the district.<\/p>\n<p>According to the authorities, the district is under the Taliban siege. Rahmatullah Rahmati, chief of the district, told Salam Watandar that the Taliban&rsquo;s siege is getting stronger. He said the government has not paid attention to the siege. &ldquo;We fear that the district will fall to the Taliban soon, therefore, the authorities have decided to close down 6 schools for security reasons&rdquo;, informed Rahmati.<\/p>\n<p>The chief of the district also said the Taliban are re-grouping in Logar and Nuristan provinces to attack this district, but the security officials have not taken the matter seriously yet.<\/p>\n<p>But, Mohsen, provincial director of education, said the closure of the schools is temporary. &ldquo;Two high schools have been shut since 3 years in Want-Waiygal district&rdquo;, informed Mohsen. According to provincial education directorate more than 38 schools are open for thousands of male and female students in Want-Waigal district.<\/p>\n<p>Sadullah Payindazoy, has head of provincial council, urged the government to take security measures in order to prevent the possible fall of the district to the Taliban insurgents.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth mentioning that the Want-Waiygal district had fallen to the Taliban 3 times in the past 5 years.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARUN (SW): Authorities in Want-Waiygal district of Nuristan province have closed down 6 schools due to possible Taliban attack on the district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-84866","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\/84866","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=84866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}