{"id":21940,"date":"2026-06-14T11:09:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T11:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=21940"},"modified":"2026-06-14T11:09:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T11:09:32","slug":"century-old-historic-sword-donated-to-afghanistans-national-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/06\/14\/century-old-historic-sword-donated-to-afghanistans-national-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Century-old historic sword donated to Afghanistan\u2019s National Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: A resident of Paktia province, Habib-ur-Rahman Noori, has donated a historic sword to Afghanistan\u2019s National Museum in the presence of Deputy Minister for Culture and Arts, Atiqullah Azizi.<br>According to the Ministry of Information and Culture, Noori said the sword had been passed down from his grandfather, who served as a guard to Habibullah Khan and reportedly used the weapon during battles against British forces.<br>He stated that the sword is more than a century old and that his decision to donate it was aimed at promoting the preservation of historical artifacts and encouraging others to entrust valuable cultural items to the National Museum for safekeeping.<br>Deputy Minister Atiqullah Azizi welcomed the donation and called on the public to cooperate with the ministry in collecting and preserving Afghanistan\u2019s historical heritage.<br>Officials at the National Museum said the sword dates back to the Islamic era and will be carefully preserved as an important historical artifact.<br>Noori had previously donated a historical statue to the National Museum as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: A resident of Paktia province, Habib-ur-Rahman Noori, has donated a historic sword to Afghanistan\u2019s National Museum in the presence of Deputy Minister for Culture and Arts, Atiqullah Azizi.According to the Ministry of Information and Culture, Noori said the sword had been passed down from his grandfather, who served as a guard to Habibullah Khan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[76],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21942,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21940\/revisions\/21942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}