{"id":58207,"date":"2025-07-14T13:33:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T09:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revayataf.com\/?p=58207"},"modified":"2025-07-14T13:33:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T09:03:57","slug":"taliban-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revayataf.com\/?p=58207","title":{"rendered":"Faiq: The Taliban Are Familiar with Urdu and Pashto, But Foreign to Persian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Nasir Ahmad Faiq, the acting representative of Afghanistan at the United Nations, reacted to the Taliban\u2019s recent decision to restrict the use of the Persian language, stating that many members of the group received their education in religious schools in Pakistan in Urdu and Pashto and are not familiar with Persian.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Faiq emphasized that the use of the country\u2019s two official languages in government documents has a historical precedent and that favoring one language over the other is a divisive policy rooted in an anti-national unity mindset.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Taliban\u2019s action has sparked widespread backlash among cultural and political activists as well as social media users.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Critics argue that this policy is part of a broader effort to eliminate the Persian language from the country\u2019s official structures\u2014a process that began earlier with the removal of Persian terms from government signage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nasir Ahmad Faiq, the acting representative of Afghanistan at the United Nations, reacted to the Taliban\u2019s recent decision to restrict the use of the Persian language, stating that many members of the group received their education in religious schools in Pakistan in Urdu and Pashto and are not familiar with Persian. Faiq emphasized that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":58208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-137"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revayataf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revayataf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revayataf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revayataf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revayataf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/revayataf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58210,"href":"https:\/\/revayataf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58207\/revisions\/58210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revayataf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revayataf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revayataf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revayataf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}