{"id":10469,"date":"2026-04-09T18:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/09\/nine-arrested-sheberghan-drug-trafficking-narcotics\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T18:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:00:24","slug":"nine-arrested-sheberghan-drug-trafficking-narcotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/09\/nine-arrested-sheberghan-drug-trafficking-narcotics\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine Arrested in Sheberghan on Charges of Drug Trafficking and Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Anti-Narcotics Department of Jawzjan Province announced that nine individuals have been arrested in the city of Sheberghan on charges of selling and using narcotics, intoxicating pills, and alcoholic beverages.<\/p>\n<p>The Jawzjan Police Command, under Taliban administration, stated in a press release that these individuals were apprehended during separate operations in various parts of Sheberghan city. According to the statement, authorities seized 1,884 tablets known as &#8220;Tablet-K,&#8221; 57 pregabalin pills, 240 grams of hashish, and 250 milliliters of alcoholic beverages from the detainees.<\/p>\n<p>Sheberghan, the capital of Jawzjan Province in northern Afghanistan, has faced increasing challenges related to the spread of narcotics and intoxicating pills in recent years. Despite repeated Taliban declarations promising a crackdown on drug trafficking, residents continue to call for sustained measures and preventive programs to curb this issue both in urban and rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>No further details have been released regarding the identities of those arrested or the legal proceedings against them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine individuals were arrested in Sheberghan, Afghanistan, for selling and using narcotics, including tablets, hashish, and alcohol, amid ongoing drug challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}