{"id":19394,"date":"2026-08-10T05:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T05:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/10\/10-metal-detectors-seized-islam-qala-herat-highway-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T05:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T05:30:19","slug":"10-metal-detectors-seized-islam-qala-herat-highway-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/10\/10-metal-detectors-seized-islam-qala-herat-highway-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Metal Detectors Seized on Islam Qala-Herat Highway in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police officials on the Herat provincial highway announced that during a discovery operation along the Islam Qala route, 10 devices specially designed to detect valuable items and underground historical artifacts were found and confiscated.<\/p>\n<p>According to these officials, the equipment was being used to search for precious goods and ancient relics underground.<\/p>\n<p>In connection with this incident, one individual was arrested and, after filing a case, handed over to judicial authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The Islam Qala highway is one of the key transit routes in western Afghanistan, connecting Herat province to the Iranian border and is constantly monitored by security forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan police seize 10 metal detectors used for underground treasure hunting on the Islam Qala-Herat highway; one arrested and referred to judiciary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19394","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\/19394","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=19394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}