{"id":21278,"date":"2026-09-07T10:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T10:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/07\/taliban-says-crime-and-drug-cultivation-down-in-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T10:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T10:30:19","slug":"taliban-says-crime-and-drug-cultivation-down-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/07\/taliban-says-crime-and-drug-cultivation-down-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Says Crime and Opium Poppy Cultivation Have Fallen in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abdul Matin Qani, spokesman for the Taliban-run Interior Ministry, said criminal activity in Afghanistan has declined. He made the remarks at a news conference with journalists in Herat province.<\/p>\n<p>According to Qani, since the Taliban returned to power, the cultivation of narcotic drugs in the country has fallen by 95%. He also said efforts to combat human trafficking are continuing.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban Interior Ministry spokesman added that more than 95% of security forces have been supplied with uniforms. He said the process of equipping and organizing the security forces is still under way.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban-run Interior Ministry is one of the administration&#8217;s main security bodies and is responsible for the police and part of the country&#8217;s internal security management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban officials say criminal activity and drug cultivation have declined in Afghanistan, while anti-trafficking efforts continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21278","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=21278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}