{"id":160801,"date":"2025-09-16T12:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T12:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/160801\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T12:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T12:16:06","slug":"taliban-leader-bans-wifi-in-an-afghan-province-to-prevent-immorality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/160801\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban leader bans WIFI in an Afghan province to &#8216;prevent immorality&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">JALALABAD, Afghanistan &#8212; JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) \u2014 <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/taliban\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Taliban<\/a> leader banned fibre optic internet in an Afghan province to \u201cprevent immorality,\u201d a spokesman for the administration said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It\u2019s the first time a ban of this kind has been imposed <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/afghanistan-taliban-timeline-four-years-anniversary-cc0741771e66ed2de2fe8a0e97f7d0f7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">since the Taliban seized power in August 2021<\/a>, and leaves government offices, the private sector, public institutions, and homes in northern Balkh province without WIFI internet. Mobile internet remains functional, however.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Haji Attaullah Zaid, a provincial government spokesman, said there was no longer cable internet access in Balkh by order of a \u201ccomplete ban\u201d from the leader Hibatullah Akhundzada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cThis measure was taken to prevent immorality, and an alternative will be built within the country for necessities,\u201d Zaid told The Associated Press. He gave no further information, including why Balkh was chosen for the ban or if the shutdown would spread to other provinces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Afghan authorities sometimes suspend the mobile phone network for security reasons, usually during religious festivals, to prevent detonations of explosive devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JALALABAD, Afghanistan &#8212; JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) \u2014 The Taliban leader banned fibre optic internet in an Afghan province&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[97835,966,793,174,29665,97834,111,74,16778,965],"class_list":["post-160801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-internet","tag-97835","tag-article","tag-general-news","tag-internet","tag-internet-access","tag-mobile-networks","tag-politics","tag-technology","tag-wireless-technology","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}