{"id":21142,"date":"2026-09-05T17:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T17:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/05\/takhar-police-arrest-18-over-drug-trafficking\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T17:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T17:15:15","slug":"takhar-police-arrest-18-over-drug-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/05\/takhar-police-arrest-18-over-drug-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Takhar police arrest 18 over drug trafficking allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Takhar police command said its anti-narcotics forces have arrested 18 people over the past five days on suspicion of drug trafficking in Taloqan, the provincial capital of Takhar, and in a number of districts in the province.<\/p>\n<p>According to the command, 1,160 kilograms of opium and 35 kilograms of hashish were recovered and seized from the detainees.<\/p>\n<p>The Takhar police command said the individuals had intended to move the narcotics secretly in cars and motorcycles.<\/p>\n<p>The agency added that the cases of those arrested have been handed over to judicial and legal authorities for further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Takhar is one of Afghanistan&#8217;s northeastern provinces, and the city of Taloqan serves as its administrative centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Takhar police say 18 people were arrested in five days over suspected drug trafficking, with opium and hashish seized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21142","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\/21142","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=21142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}