{"id":17763,"date":"2026-07-16T16:15:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/16\/three-arrested-drug-trafficking-balkh-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T16:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:15:24","slug":"three-arrested-drug-trafficking-balkh-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/16\/three-arrested-drug-trafficking-balkh-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Arrested for Drug Trafficking in Balkh Province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Balkh Police Command, affiliated with the Taliban administration, announced the arrest of three individuals on charges of buying and selling narcotics in Mazar-i-Sharif city and Balkh district. These individuals were identified and detained following a security operation.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement issued by the police command, 300 grams of pregabalin, 19 tablets known as &#8220;Ka,&#8221; and 35 grams of methamphetamine were seized from the detainees.<\/p>\n<p>Officials added that the cases of these individuals will be referred to judicial and legal authorities for further legal proceedings and sentencing after initial investigations are completed.<\/p>\n<p>Balkh province is considered one of the important regions in northern Afghanistan, and there have been previous reports of drug discoveries and seizures in various parts of the province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three individuals were arrested for drug trafficking in Balkh, Afghanistan, with narcotics including pregabalin and methamphetamine seized by authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17763","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\/17763","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=17763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}