{"id":1098025,"date":"2021-12-08T10:28:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T15:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1098025"},"modified":"2021-12-08T10:28:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T15:28:50","slug":"taliban-arrests-dozens-for-allegedly-selling-illegal-passports-to-desperate-travelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taliban-arrests-dozens-for-allegedly-selling-illegal-passports-to-desperate-travelers\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Arrests Dozens for Allegedly Selling Illegal Passports to Desperate Travelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftaliban-arrests-dozens-for-allegedly-selling-illegal-passports-to-desperate-travelers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1098025&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/taliban-make-arrests-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Afghanistan\u2019s Passport Department announced Monday the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/pajhwok.com\/2021\/12\/06\/illegal-distribution-of-passports-75-commission-agents-held\/\">arrest<\/a> of at least 75 \u201cmiddlemen\u201d and \u201cdozens of other commission agents\u201d for allegedly selling or attempting to sell \u201cfake\u201d Afghan passports and identification cards to an unknown number of people in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA group of commission agents issuing fake passports and identity cards to people were arrested two days ago [December 4],\u201d Alam Gul Haqqani, the Acting Director of Afghanistan\u2019s Passport Department, told reporters at a press briefing on December 6 in Kabul.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe are following the middlemen and steps are being taken to arrest them,\u201d Haqqani added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome time back, a passport could be obtained illegally in return for $1600 [USD] and an electronic identity card for 10,000 afghanis,\u201d Pajhwok Afghan News recalled on December 6.<\/p>\n<p>The news agency referred to its own November 15 report which revealed how \u201cthe price of one passport had reached $1600 in the black market.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Pajhwok Afghan News did not specify if the Afghan passports and identifications cards for sale on the black market in recent weeks were fake, such as the ones described by Haqqani on Monday, or authentic.<\/p>\n<p>The recent upsurge in demand for Afghan passports suggests many people in Afghanistan are desperate to leave the country. The Taliban <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2021\/08\/15\/bidens-saigon-videos-reveal-utter-chaos-kabul-airport-taliban-conquers-afghanistan\/\">seized<\/a> control of Afghanistan on August 15 by deposing Kabul\u2019s U.S.-supported government. Since then, the hardline Sunni group \u2014 which previously ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2000 \u2014 has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/exclusive-council-may-rule-afghanistan-taliban-reach-out-soldiers-pilots-senior-2021-08-18\/\">reinstated<\/a> a ruling system based on <em>sharia<\/em>, or the group\u2019s harsh interpretation of Islamic law, over the country\u2019s populace.<\/p>\n<p>A group of Afghan refugees stranded in Indonesia for roughly a decade while waiting for transport to a third country reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/tolonews.com\/afghanistan-175776\">sewed<\/a> their lips shut in recent days to protest their situation, Afghanistan\u2019s Tolo News reported on December 6. The news site did not specify the number of Afghan refugees who participated in the gruesome protest this week but said the group hoped to \u201cdraw attention to what they claim is the failure of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to address their problems and process their asylum-seeking cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to the figures of a refugee association in Indonesia, around 4,000 Afghan refugees have been stranded in Indonesia for resettlement in a third country,\u201d Tolo News relayed. \u201cThey said that the officials of Jakarta have not allowed them to work legally in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been seven to ten years that Afghan refugees are living in Indonesia,\u201d Asif Rahimi, an Afghan refugee residing in Indonesia, told the news site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan\u2019s Passport Department announced Monday the recent arrest of at least 75 \u201cmiddlemen\u201d and \u201cdozens of other commission agents\u201d for allegedly selling or attempting to sell \u201cfake\u201d Afghan passports and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}