{"id":34066,"date":"2021-07-14T22:09:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T13:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/14\/taliban-claim-afghan-border-crossing-with-pakistan-in-major-gain"},"modified":"2021-07-14T22:09:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T13:09:12","slug":"taliban-claim-afghan-border-crossing-with-pakistan-in-major-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34066","title":{"rendered":"Taliban claim Afghan border crossing with Pakistan in major gain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Militants say they have made what could be their most significant advance in a nationwide offensive<\/p>\n<p>Taliban fighters said on Wednesday that they had taken control of one of Afghanistan\u2019s main border crossings with Pakistan, perhaps their most strategic gain so far <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/09\/taliban-sweep-through-herat-province-as-afghan-advance-continues\">in a rapid advance across the country as US forces pull out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A Pakistani official said fighters had taken down the Afghan government flag at the Spin Boldak crossing between the Pakistani town of Chaman and the Afghan town of Wesh.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/14\/taliban-claim-afghan-border-crossing-with-pakistan-in-major-gain\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Militants say they have made what could be their most significant advance in a nationwide offensiveTaliban fighters said on Wednesday that they had taken control of one of Afghanistan\u2019s main border crossings with Pakistan, perhaps their most strategic &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,60,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34067,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34066\/revisions\/34067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}