{"id":18169,"date":"2024-02-08T05:04:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T05:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=18169"},"modified":"2024-02-08T05:04:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T05:04:47","slug":"afghan-pakistan-border-crossings-closed-due-to-pakistani-national-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/02\/afghan-pakistan-border-crossings-closed-due-to-pakistani-national-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan-Pakistan border crossings closed due to Pakistani national elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; The Torkham, Gholam Khan, and Dand Aw Patan border crossings have been temporarily closed to all traffic since the Thursday daybreak (12:00 am).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The reason for the closure of these border crossings are reportedly the ongoing national elections in Pakistan, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>Naqibullah Safi, the executive director of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Joint Chamber of Commerce and Industry, confirmed the closure of the crossings and mentioned that they are expected to be reopened tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>This measure is implemented reportedly as a precaution during the election process.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s national elections are scheduled to take place on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; The Torkham, Gholam Khan, and Dand Aw Patan border crossings have been temporarily closed to all traffic since the Thursday daybreak (12:00 am).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":18170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,1,978,372,976,982,5,7,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-0_swnen","category-security","category-region","category-politics","category-international","category-politics_","category-headline","category-pakistan"],"views":69,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18171,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18169\/revisions\/18171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}