{"id":88096,"date":"2022-10-01T13:27:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/?p=88096"},"modified":"2022-10-01T13:27:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:57:42","slug":"afspa-extended-to-three-districts-of-arunachal-pradesh-as-disturbed-areas-by-the-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/afspa-extended-to-three-districts-of-arunachal-pradesh-as-disturbed-areas-by-the-center\/","title":{"rendered":"AFSPA extended to three districts of Arunachal Pradesh as &#8216;disturbed areas&#8217; by the center"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Friday, the Central government extended the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act for six months in three districts of Arunachal Pradesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AFSPA will apply from October 1 to March 30, 2023 in Tirap, Changlang, and Longding, according to a notification issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The development comes after the security situation of these three districts has been reviewed, and the areas have been further designated as &#8216;disturbed areas&#8217;. To maintain public order, the armed forces are authorized to use whatever means they deem necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a result of its new notification issued on Friday, the Ministry said, &#8220;Tirap, Changlang, and Longding districts in Arunachal Pradesh, as well as the Namsai and Mahadevpur police stations in Namsai, bordering Assam, have been declared a &#8216;disturbed area&#8217; under Section 3 of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 for a period of six months, effective October 1, 2022, unless withdrawn earlier.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nagaland, Assam, and Manipur were excluded from the AFSPA earlier this year in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, the Central government extended the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act for six months in three districts of Arunachal Pradesh. AFSPA will apply from October 1 to March 30, 2023 in Tirap, Changlang, and Longding, according to a notification issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). The development comes after the security situation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88098,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88096\/revisions\/88098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}