{"id":90851,"date":"2019-06-07T06:46:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T06:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/khwaja-umari-district-retaken-from-the-taliban\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:11:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:11:16","slug":"khwaja-umari-district-retaken-from-the-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/khwaja-umari-district-retaken-from-the-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"Khwaja Umari district retaken from the Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"499\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/June\/7\/Ghazni 2.jpg\" width=\"749\" \/><\/p>\n<p>GHAZNI CITY (SW) &ndash; After a year, the security forces managed to retake the Khwaja Umari district of Ghazni province from the Taliban insurgents.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesman for the provincial governor, Mohammad Arif Noori, told Salam Watandar the security forces reclaimed the district from the insurgents this morning. The Ministry of Defense has confirmed it.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Ghazni, Waheedullah Kaleemzay, told a press conference in this connection on Friday that all public offices would be activated here upon deployment of additional troops.<\/p>\n<p>A provincial council member, Hassan Reza Yosufi, told SW the insurgents torched administration compound and material. He feared the insurgents might have placed landmines before leaving the district.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban have not commented on this.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the security forces also reclaimed Deh Yak district from the Taliban in the same province.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as the minister for defense, Assadullah Khalid, recently vowed during a trip to Zabul province that all areas under the control of the insurgents would be reclaimed.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GHAZNI CITY (SW) \u2013 After a year, the security forces managed to retake the Khwaja Umari district of Ghazni province from the Taliban insurgents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-90851","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\/90851","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=90851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}