{"id":12999,"date":"2026-05-14T06:45:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/14\/two-human-trafficking-leaders-killed-five-arrested-kabul-taliban-operation\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T06:45:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:45:23","slug":"two-human-trafficking-leaders-killed-five-arrested-kabul-taliban-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/14\/two-human-trafficking-leaders-killed-five-arrested-kabul-taliban-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Human Trafficking Leaders Killed in Kabul, Five Arrested in Taliban Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban&#8217;s Ministry of Interior Affairs announced that during a special operation in Kabul city, two leaders of a human trafficking group were killed and five other members of the network were arrested.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry, the operation was launched by forces from Kabul&#8217;s 15th security district. As a result of this action, Karimullah and Ahmadi, identified as prominent figures in the group, were killed, and five others were detained on charges of being members of the network.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Interior further added that in a separate operation in Kabul&#8217;s 18th security district, a man named Haji Syed Ashraf, who had previously been kidnapped, was rescued from the kidnappers.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Taliban administration reports increased efforts to control organized crime, Kabul&#8217;s citizens continue to call for greater transparency regarding operation details and the fate of those arrested, as concerns about the expansion of human trafficking networks and urban security remain persistent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two human trafficking leaders killed and five members arrested in Kabul during Taliban operation; kidnapped man rescued amid ongoing security concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12999","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\/12999","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=12999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}