{"id":17937,"date":"2026-07-19T13:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/19\/taliban-seize-thousands-ammunition-paktia-province\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T13:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T13:00:22","slug":"taliban-seize-thousands-ammunition-paktia-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/19\/taliban-seize-thousands-ammunition-paktia-province\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Authorities Seize Thousands of Ammunition Rounds in Paktia Province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban&#8217;s Ministry of Interior Affairs has announced that its security forces have uncovered and confiscated a large cache of weapons and ammunition in Paktia province. According to the ministry, the ammunition was intended to be smuggled from Afghanistan into Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry&#8217;s press office stated today that during a search operation in the village of Nari China in Dand Patan district, 8,000 rounds of MP bullets, 12 grenade rounds, and 500 DShK machine gun rounds were recovered from a hidden location. The Taliban administration claims that the ammunition was being transported by smugglers through a secure area.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, officials from the Shahrah Battalion in Pul-e-Khost also discovered and confiscated 5 pistols and 50 rounds of related ammunition during the inspection of a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban&#8217;s Ministry of Interior has not released further details regarding any arrests or how the smuggling operation was organized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban forces seize thousands of rounds of ammunition in Paktia province, uncovering weapons planned for smuggling into Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17937","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\/17937","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=17937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}