{"id":11164,"date":"2026-04-22T10:15:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/22\/28-arrested-drug-trafficking-nangarhar\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:15:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:15:26","slug":"28-arrested-drug-trafficking-nangarhar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/22\/28-arrested-drug-trafficking-nangarhar\/","title":{"rendered":"28 Arrested for Drug Trafficking in Nangarhar Province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nangarhar Police Department has announced that over the past week, 28 individuals have been arrested in connection with drug trafficking in the province. <\/p>\n<p>According to a statement released by the department, authorities seized 4,958 grams of various narcotics, 1,141 narcotic tablets, 40 grams of hashish, 37 grams of crystal methamphetamine, 14 grams of opium, and 2 grams of heroin from the detainees. Further details regarding the exact types of some substances were not provided.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the police information, the arrested individuals have confessed to their crimes and are scheduled to be referred to judicial and legal authorities after the completion of initial investigations.<\/p>\n<p>The Nangarhar Police emphasized that cultivation, trafficking, buying, and selling of narcotics is strictly prohibited, and legal action will be taken against anyone involved in such activities.<\/p>\n<p>This announcement comes despite the Taliban administration&#8217;s declared ban on narcotics cultivation and trafficking. Reports from some areas indicate that the drug problem persists, highlighting the need for greater transparency regarding counter-narcotics efforts and the tangible outcomes of these measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nangarhar police arrested 28 individuals for drug trafficking, seizing nearly 5kg of narcotics, amid ongoing challenges despite Taliban&#8217;s ban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11164","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\/11164","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=11164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}