{"id":16917,"date":"2026-07-07T13:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/07\/two-arrested-104-kg-narcotics-takhar\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T13:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:30:21","slug":"two-arrested-104-kg-narcotics-takhar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/07\/two-arrested-104-kg-narcotics-takhar\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Arrested with 104 Kilograms of Narcotics in Takhar Province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban&#8217;s Interior Affairs Department has announced that their narcotics control forces in Takhar province have arrested two individuals along with 104 kilograms of narcotics.<\/p>\n<p>According to the department&#8217;s statement, the arrested individuals had skillfully concealed the drugs inside a taxi vehicle and were in the process of transporting them to an unknown destination. No further details about the type of narcotics or the transportation route were provided.<\/p>\n<p>The statement added that after completing preliminary investigations, the suspects will be handed over to judicial and legal authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Takhar is a northeastern province of the country, where reports of drug trafficking routes have surfaced in recent years. Despite the Taliban&#8217;s repeated claims of combating narcotics, experts emphasize that transparency in reporting statistics and legal follow-up is essential to seriously assess the effectiveness of this fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two individuals were arrested in Takhar with 104 kg of narcotics, highlighting ongoing drug trafficking concerns despite Taliban claims to fight drug trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16917","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=16917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}