{"id":21430,"date":"2026-09-09T09:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T09:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/09\/taliban-farah-arrests-opium-smuggling-34-kg\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T09:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T09:01:15","slug":"taliban-farah-arrests-opium-smuggling-34-kg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/09\/taliban-farah-arrests-opium-smuggling-34-kg\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban detain two in Farah over more than 34 kg of opium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local Taliban authorities in Farah have announced the arrest of two people in connection with the transfer of 34 kilograms and 400 grams of opium in the province.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement from the Taliban-run police command in Farah, the individuals were detained in the Ab Khorma area of Farah Rod district. The statement said the narcotics had been hidden in a Toyota Hilux and were to be transported from the area to another location.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban said the detainees, after initial investigation, had been handed over to judicial and legal authorities for further proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Farah province is located in western Afghanistan, and some of its routes, because of its border location and transit roads, have often been mentioned in reports related to drug smuggling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban authorities in Farah say two people were arrested over the transfer of more than 34 kg of opium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21430","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\/21430","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=21430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}