{"id":1447,"date":"2026-07-05T07:20:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T07:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2026-07-05T07:20:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T07:20:24","slug":"taliban-defense-minister-visits-badakhshan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/2026\/07\/05\/taliban-defense-minister-visits-badakhshan\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Defense Minister visits Badakhshan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid, the Taliban\u2019s Minister of Defense, has traveled to Badakhshan amid reports of rising internal tensions within the group involving one of its local commanders, Juma Khan Fateh.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Defense of the Taliban stated in a press release on Sunday, 14 Saratan, that Mujahid visited several districts of Badakhshan province as well as border areas with China, Tajikistan, and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, he visited the districts of Zebak, Ishkashim, and Kran wa Munjan, as well as the artillery base in Wakhan and the Pamir region of Badakhshan.<\/p>\n<p>He also visited several important and strategic border areas with China, Tajikistan, and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The statement added that during the visit, he assessed the activities and readiness level of border forces and emphasized the protection of territorial integrity, national sovereignty, and border security.<\/p>\n<p>He also promised to strengthen border forces and provide them with necessary equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid, the Taliban\u2019s Minister of Defense, has traveled to Badakhshan amid reports of rising internal tensions within the group involving one of its local commanders, Juma Khan Fateh. The Ministry of Defense of the Taliban stated in a press release on Sunday, 14 Saratan, that Mujahid visited several districts of Badakhshan province as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afg_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1449,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/1449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}