{"id":90535,"date":"2019-04-18T07:20:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T07:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/over-70-per-cent-population-lives-in-government-controlled-areas\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:07:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:07:47","slug":"over-70-per-cent-population-lives-in-government-controlled-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/over-70-per-cent-population-lives-in-government-controlled-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 70 per cent population lives in government-controlled areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"640\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/April\/18\/57649090_2077716812340885_266130987002363904_n.jpg\" width=\"960\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; Over 70 per cent population of Afghanistan lives in areas under the government control, officials said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Matin Baig, head of the Independent Directorate of Local Governance, said this at a press conference in connection with the government&rsquo;s accountability drive. He said people living in the Taliban-controlled areas are also approaching public offices for delivery of services. He said only 20 districts across the country remain under the Taliban control.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the occasion, Ahmad Zaki Sarfaraz, mayor of Kabul, said the municipality in the capital city collected a record AFN 4 billion worth of revenues in the past one year alone. He said a dedicated 409-member team has been tasked to prevent land-grabbing in the city. Mayor Sarfaraz added work is underway on maiden map to locate addresses in all 22 districts.<\/p>\n<p>The municipality officials added over 37,000 booklets for the yearly municipality tax have been issued&nbsp;in the city.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 Over 70 per cent population of Afghanistan lives in areas under the government control, officials said on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-90535","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\/90535","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=90535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}