{"id":711173,"date":"2026-09-22T14:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T10:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ariananews.af\/afghan-boxing-referee-heads-to-china-for-international-festival\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T15:41:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:11:31","slug":"afghan-boxing-referee-heads-to-china-for-international-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ariananews.af\/ps\/afghan-boxing-referee-heads-to-china-for-international-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan boxing referee heads to China for international festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Khyber Sultani, an Afghan national and international boxing referee, has traveled to China to officiate at the 9th International Boxing Festival.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to Afghanistan\u2019s General Directorate of Physical Education and Sports, Soltani was sent to Xinjiang by the International Boxing Federation in coordination with the country\u2019s Olympic and sports authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament, hosted in China, will run from September 21 to September 30.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the competition, Afghanistan\u2019s national boxing team, which had already arrived in China, completed a two-day training camp to prepare for the event.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghan delegation consists of seven athletes, two coaches and one team official, who will represent Afghanistan at the international tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Sultani\u2019s appointment adds an Afghan official to the international officiating team for the competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khyber Sultani, an Afghan national and international boxing referee, has traveled to China to officiate at the 9th International Boxing Festival. According to Afghanistan\u2019s General Directorate of Physical Education and Sports, Soltani was sent to Xinjiang by the International Boxing Federation in coordination with the country\u2019s Olympic and sports authorities. The tournament, hosted in China, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":711170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[15889,20459,19282,18409,78096,78097,16060],"class_list":["post-711173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-2","tag-ariananews-ps-2","tag-boxing-ps","tag-china-ps","tag-featured-ps-2","tag-khyber-sultani","tag-referee","tag-sport-ps-3"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ariananews.af\/ps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ariananews.af\/ps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ariananews.af\/ps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ariananews.af\/ps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ariananews.af\/ps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711173"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ariananews.af\/ps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711179,"href":"https:\/\/www.ariananews.af\/ps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711173\/revisions\/711179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ariananews.af\/ps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ariananews.af\/ps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ariananews.af\/ps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ariananews.af\/ps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}