{"id":940022,"date":"2025-06-20T09:45:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T04:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=940022"},"modified":"2025-06-20T10:04:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T04:34:32","slug":"taliban-slaps-smartphone-ban-in-kandahar-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/20\/taliban-slaps-smartphone-ban-in-kandahar-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban slaps smartphone ban in Kandahar schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kabul: A ban on smartphones in schools issued by Taliban authorities in southern Afghanistan came into force, students and teachers confirmed to AFP on Wednesday, over concerns of &#8220;focus&#8221; and &#8220;Islamic law&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The directive by the provincial Education Department in Kandahar applies to students, teachers and administrative staff in schools and religious schools.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This decision has been made to ensure educational discipline, focus&#8221;, the statement said, adding that it was taken from a &#8220;sharia perspective&#8221; and that smartphones contribute to &#8220;the destruction of the future generation&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kabul: A ban on smartphones in schools issued by Taliban authorities in southern Afghanistan came into force, students and teachers confirmed to AFP on Wednesday, over concerns of &#8220;focus&#8221; and &#8220;Islamic law&#8221;. The directive by the provincial Education Department in Kandahar applies to students, teachers and administrative staff in schools and religious schools. &#8220;This decision has been made to ensure educational discipline, focus&#8221;, the statement said, adding that it was taken from a &#8220;sharia perspective&#8221; and that smartphones contribute to &#8220;the destruction of the future generation&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}