{"id":28049,"date":"2021-10-04T08:49:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T08:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=28049"},"modified":"2021-10-04T08:49:59","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T08:49:59","slug":"afghan-pavilion-at-dubai-world-fair-stays-shut-after-taliban-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2021\/10\/04\/afghan-pavilion-at-dubai-world-fair-stays-shut-after-taliban-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan pavilion at Dubai world fair stays shut after Taliban takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 id=\"leadtext\"><strong>Hours after the world expo fair opened in Dubai on Friday, Afghanistan&#8217;s exhibition remained closed to visitors in a sign of the challenges facing the country&#8217;s new Taliban rulers<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Afghanistan is one of nearly 200 nations participating in the six-month fair that was awarded to Dubai eight years ago and faced a year-long delay to the start due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>But the country&#8217;s pavilion, which was organised by the previous Afghan government before it was driven from power by the Taliban last month, remained unfinished and closed to visitors on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>A security guard at the building where the pavilion is located said they had not seen anyone work there in weeks.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear whether the pavilion, listed on signage around the 4.3 sq km (1.7 sq mile) purpose-built site, would open at a later date during the expo fair.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hours after the world expo fair opened in Dubai on Friday, Afghanistan&rsquo;s exhibition remained closed to visitors in a sign of the challenges facing the country&rsquo;s new Taliban rulers Afghanistan is one of nearly 200 nations participating in the six-month fair that was awarded to Dubai eight years ago and faced a year-long delay to the start due to the pandemic. But the country&rsquo;s pavilion, which was organised by the previous Afghan government before it was driven from power by the Taliban last month, remained unfinished and closed to visitors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28052,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28049\/revisions\/28052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}