{"id":40086,"date":"2021-08-12T18:56:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T18:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=40086"},"modified":"2021-08-12T18:56:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T18:56:03","slug":"life-in-a-town-taken-by-the-taliban-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=40086","title":{"rendered":"Life in a town taken by the Taliban in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The Taliban have made rapid territorial gains in Afghanistan the past few weeks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Having already captured rural areas and border crossings, they\u2019ve now seized a number of provincial capitals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The government still remains in control of some of the most important urban centres, but with international troops nearly all gone there are increasing concerns about the pace of the Taliban\u2019s advance and what it means for those under their rule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">BBC Afghanistan Correspondent Secunder Kermani was given rare access to newly captured Taliban territory in the north of the country \u2013 where militants have been encircling the city of Mazar-e-Sharif. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Filmed and edited by Fred Scott<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-58194378\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban have made rapid territorial gains in Afghanistan the past few weeks. Having already captured rural areas and border crossings, they\u2019ve now seized a number of provincial capitals. The government still remains in control of some of the most important urban centres, but with international troops nearly all gone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/119915945_p09s2sxc.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}