{"id":962711,"date":"2025-09-19T08:02:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T02:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=962711"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T02:42:06","slug":"taliban-internet-ban-spreads-across-afghanistan-as-more-provinces-are-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/19\/taliban-internet-ban-spreads-across-afghanistan-as-more-provinces-are-shut-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban internet ban spreads across Afghanistan as more provinces are shut down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Taliban crackdown to &#8220;prevent immorality&#8221; is spreading across Afghanistan, with more provinces losing access to fibre-optic internet after the country&#8217;s leader imposed a complete ban on the technology. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the first time a ban of this kind has been imposed since the Taliban seized power in August 2021, and leaves government offices, the private sector, public institutions, and homes without Wi-Fi internet. Mobile internet remains functional, however. Officials say alternatives are being found &#8220;for necessities.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Taliban crackdown to &#8220;prevent immorality&#8221; is spreading across Afghanistan, with more provinces losing access to fibre-optic internet after the country&#8217;s leader imposed a complete ban on the technology. It&#8217;s the first time a ban of this kind has been imposed since the Taliban seized power in August 2021, and leaves government offices, the private sector, public institutions, and homes without Wi-Fi internet. Mobile internet remains functional, however. Officials say alternatives are being found &#8220;for necessities.&#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-962711","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\/962711","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=962711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}