{"id":963813,"date":"2025-09-24T08:17:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T02:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963813"},"modified":"2025-09-24T08:31:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T03:01:17","slug":"from-looms-to-laptops-afghan-women-lose-lifeline-in-taliban-internet-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/24\/from-looms-to-laptops-afghan-women-lose-lifeline-in-taliban-internet-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"From looms to laptops, Afghan women lose lifeline in Taliban internet ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: In a dim home used as a small business in Afghanistan, women bent over bright cloth use needles to form intricate embroidery. But their fibre-optic network in Kandahar &#8211; their primary link to buyers &#8211; has now gone dark.<\/p>\n<p>Local government officials confirmed a ban on fibre-optic services in five northern provinces &#8211; Balkh, Kunduz, Badakhshan, Takhar and Baghlan. Officials said the ban is to prevent &#8220;immoral activities.&#8221; Residents in other provinces, including Kandahar, Herat and Parwan have reported disruptions, though these have not been formally acknowledged by authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: In a dim home used as a small business in Afghanistan, women bent over bright cloth use needles to form intricate embroidery. But their fibre-optic network in Kandahar &#8211; their primary link to buyers &#8211; has now gone dark. Local government officials confirmed a ban on fibre-optic services in five northern provinces &#8211; Balkh, Kunduz, Badakhshan, Takhar and Baghlan. Officials said the ban is to prevent &#8220;immoral activities.&#8221; Residents in other provinces, including Kandahar, Herat and Parwan have reported disruptions, though these have not been formally acknowledged by authorities.<\/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-963813","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\/963813","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=963813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}