{"id":19440,"date":"2026-08-10T11:15:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T11:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/10\/taliban-seizes-134kg-narcotics-wardak-arrests-four\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T11:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T11:15:24","slug":"taliban-seizes-134kg-narcotics-wardak-arrests-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/10\/taliban-seizes-134kg-narcotics-wardak-arrests-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Authorities Seize 134 Kilograms of Narcotics in Wardak Province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban&#8217;s Ministry of Interior has announced that its narcotics control police discovered and confiscated 134 kilograms of narcotics in the Nerkh district of Wardak province. According to the ministry, the shipment was loaded in Badakhshan province and was intended to be transported to Helmand province. It was identified and seized during the inspection of a cargo truck. The source stated that four individuals have been detained in connection with the case and will be handed over to judicial authorities after their files are completed. This incident is reported as the Taliban administration continues to claim efforts against drug trafficking, despite ongoing reports of narcotics being transported through various routes across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban police seize 134 kg of narcotics in Wardak, arrest four suspects, amid ongoing drug trafficking challenges across Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19440","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\/19440","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=19440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}