{"id":21184,"date":"2026-09-06T08:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T08:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/06\/taliban-narcotics-seizure-four-arrested-three-provinces\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T08:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T08:30:14","slug":"taliban-narcotics-seizure-four-arrested-three-provinces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/06\/taliban-narcotics-seizure-four-arrested-three-provinces\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban says it seized narcotics and arrested four across three provinces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban administration said its police forces have seized 615 kilograms of various narcotics, 4,500 intoxicating tablets and 1,170 kilograms of \u201cyama\u201d in separate operations in the provinces of Nimroz, Kabul and Uruzgan.<\/p>\n<p>According to the administration, four people were also arrested in connection with trafficking these substances.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the information released, 615 kilograms of narcotics were found in Nimroz, 4,500 intoxicating tablets in Kabul and 1,170 kilograms of \u201cyama\u201d in Uruzgan. The Taliban administration gave no further details about the exact timing of the operations or the identities of those arrested.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban administration said the cases of those detained will be handed over to judicial and legal authorities after investigations are completed.<\/p>\n<p>Nimroz and Uruzgan are among the provinces that have also been associated with drug trafficking routes and movement. \u201cYama\u201d is also a term used in Afghanistan for a type of synthetic drug, including methamphetamine or crystal meth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban officials say police seized narcotics in Nimroz, Kabul and Uruzgan and arrested four people in separate operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21184","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\/21184","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=21184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}