{"id":94100,"date":"2020-02-01T04:13:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T04:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/check-posts-involved-in-extortion-removed\/"},"modified":"2020-02-01T04:13:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T04:13:58","slug":"check-posts-involved-in-extortion-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/check-posts-involved-in-extortion-removed\/","title":{"rendered":"Check posts involved in extortion removed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2020\/February\/01\/Police-stations-600x300.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KANDAHAR (SW) &ndash; At least ten security check posts blamed for extortion of money from transporters have been removed from the Kandahar &ndash; Zabul highway.<\/p>\n<p>Interim head for the Zabul police headquarters, Zabihullah Zoben, said has confirmed this.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on this, interior ministry spokesman, Nusrat Rahimi, said these check posts were removed on Friday. He added at least 12 suspects have been referred to the Attorney General&rsquo;s office in this connection for investigation.<\/p>\n<p>This comes a month after transporters took to the streets against extortion of money and police high-handedness on this key route between Kandahar and Kabul. The protesters claimed they are forced to pay up to AFN 30,000 per truck.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANDAHAR (SW) \u2013 At least ten security check posts blamed for extortion of money from transporters have been removed from the Kandahar \u2013 Zabul highway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-94100","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\/94100","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=94100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}