{"id":13030,"date":"2026-05-14T10:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T10:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/14\/police-seize-69kg-narcotics-drug-processing-factory-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T10:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T10:45:19","slug":"police-seize-69kg-narcotics-drug-processing-factory-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/14\/police-seize-69kg-narcotics-drug-processing-factory-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Seize 69 Kilos of Narcotics and Drug Processing Factory in Three Provinces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Narcotics control police forces announced that in several separate operations, they have seized 69 kilograms of narcotics and a drug processing factory in the provinces of Laghman, Nimroz, and Helmand.<\/p>\n<p>According to released information, 56 kilograms of hashish were recovered in Laghman province, and 13 kilograms of opium were seized in Nimroz province through separate operations. No details have been provided regarding the arrest of individuals connected to these cases.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, in Sangin district of Helmand province, a drug processing and production factory was uncovered. Sources said that at this site, 1,000 liters of liquid substances and more than 600 kilograms of solid materials used in the production and processing of narcotics were confiscated.<\/p>\n<p>Helmand province has long been considered one of the main areas for narcotics cultivation and production in the country. Despite repeated commitments by the Taliban administration to combat narcotics, concerns remain about the transparency of the fight and the continued activity of trafficking networks in some areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan police seize 69 kg of narcotics and a drug processing factory in Laghman, Nimroz, and Helmand, highlighting ongoing drug trafficking concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13030","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\/13030","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=13030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}