{"id":3317,"date":"2021-02-20T14:10:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T14:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=3317"},"modified":"2021-02-20T14:10:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T14:10:19","slug":"186-officials-sacked-on-charges-of-highway-extortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/02\/186-officials-sacked-on-charges-of-highway-extortion\/","title":{"rendered":"186 officials sacked on charges of highway extortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 Interior Minister Mohammad Massoud Andarabi has announced sacking of at least 186 officials on complaints by transporters against highway extortion.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Interior made this announcement on his Twitter handle. He said the senior deputy interior minister was working with teams tasked with sketching reforms in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>This followed protests by drivers and transport unions against extortion on the highways.<\/p>\n<p>The protest of drivers and transport unions as well as the fire at Islam-Qala customs have led to price-hike in many basic commodities.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interior Minister Mohammad Massoud Andarabi has announced sacking of at least 186 officials on complaints by transporters against highway extortion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18,225,5,8,4,6],"tags":[12,166,219,246],"class_list":["post-3317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security_","category-peace","category-corruption","category-politics_","category-governance","category-news_","category-afghanistan","tag-afghanistan","tag-kabul","tag-corruption","tag-police"],"views":575,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}