{"id":1568,"date":"2025-11-10T12:05:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/11\/10\/162-kilograms-drugs-seized-nimroz-taliban\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T12:05:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:05:15","slug":"162-kilograms-drugs-seized-nimroz-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/11\/10\/162-kilograms-drugs-seized-nimroz-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"162 Kilograms of Narcotics Seized in Nimroz Province, One Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nimroz security officials have announced that counter-narcotics police forces successfully discovered and seized 162 kilograms of illegal drugs during an intelligence-led operation in the province.<\/p>\n<p>In connection with the case, one individual has been arrested along with a pistol, two magazines, and 20 rounds of ammunition. According to security authorities, this person has been handed over to judicial institutions for prosecution following preliminary investigations.<\/p>\n<p>While drug trafficking and transportation remain serious challenges in Nimroz\u2014especially in its border areas with Iran\u2014the Taliban administration has yet to introduce a clear and structured plan to manage the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The growing activity of drug trafficking networks and sporadic arrests point to the Taliban&#8217;s inability to control smuggling operations and establish sustained security, an issue that has increasingly alarmed both citizens and civil society organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan police seize 162 kg of drugs in Nimroz amid concerns about Taliban&#8217;s lack of strategy to combat border smuggling and rising drug networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1568","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\/1568","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=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}