{"id":86456,"date":"2017-11-12T06:31:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T06:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/foreign-militants-remain-at-large-in-zabuls-six-districts\/"},"modified":"2017-11-12T06:31:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T06:31:54","slug":"foreign-militants-remain-at-large-in-zabuls-six-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/foreign-militants-remain-at-large-in-zabuls-six-districts\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign militants remain at large in Zabul\u2019s six districts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"337\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2017\/November\/12\/Zabul 2.jpg\" width=\"599\" \/><\/p>\n<p>QALAT (SW): Chief of the provincial council in Zabul has said the Khak-e-Afghan district remains out of the government control since nearly a decade posing grim threat to the whole province.<\/p>\n<p>In conversation with Salam Watandar, Atta Jan Haq Bayan said there is an abundance of foreign militants associated with the Al &ndash; Qaeda, Haqqani Network, Lashkar &ndash; Tayaba, Lashkar-e-Jhangavi and Daesh active in a number of districts namely Dai Chopan, Arghandab, Shamalzo, Nau Bahar and Mezana. The provincial council chief stressed the locals are exasperated with the militants.<\/p>\n<p>Gul Mohammad and Dawa Khan, two Zabul residents, said in this regard that the government should do all it can to bring halt to fighting. They said a generation has lived through the conflict without any hope for an end to it.<\/p>\n<p>Gul Islam Sayal, spokesman for the governor, has downplayed the reports about rising conflict in the province. He acknowledged that the Khak-e-Afghan remains out of government control, but the rest of province remains pretty much under the government control.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QALAT (SW): Chief of the provincial council in Zabul has said the Khak-e-Afghan district remains out of the government control since nearly a decade posing grim threat to the whole province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-86456","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\/86456","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=86456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}