{"id":18019,"date":"2026-07-20T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/20\/kabul-seizes-22000-narcotic-pills-three-arrested\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T12:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:00:19","slug":"kabul-seizes-22000-narcotic-pills-three-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/20\/kabul-seizes-22000-narcotic-pills-three-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 22,000 Narcotic Pills Seized in Kabul; Three Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban&#8217;s Anti-Narcotics Police announced that in several separate operations across different parts of Kabul city, they have confiscated 22,143 narcotic pills, a figure that highlights the ongoing widespread circulation of drugs in the capital.<\/p>\n<p>According to the department, three individuals have been arrested on charges of trafficking and selling these pills following the operations. The Taliban authorities have not disclosed the identities of the arrested individuals or the exact locations of the raids.<\/p>\n<p>Officials added that after initial investigations, the cases of the detainees will be referred to the relevant judicial and legal bodies for further proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Kabul, as the country&#8217;s capital, has frequently witnessed the discovery of narcotics and drug pills, a matter that has raised concerns about the easy access to these substances and their social consequences among the city&#8217;s residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban police seize over 22,000 narcotic pills in Kabul and arrest three individuals amid ongoing drug circulation concerns in the capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18019","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\/18019","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=18019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}