{"id":21799,"date":"2026-09-14T11:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T11:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/14\/taliban-tightens-border-measures-to-curb-smuggling\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T11:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T11:45:15","slug":"taliban-tightens-border-measures-to-curb-smuggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/14\/taliban-tightens-border-measures-to-curb-smuggling\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Says It Has Tightened Border Measures to Curb Smuggling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban administration said it has taken steps over the past five years, in cooperation with other security agencies, to protect Afghanistan&#8217;s borders and prevent the smuggling of weapons and people.<\/p>\n<p>Sediqullah Nusrat, spokesman for the Taliban-led Ministry of Defence, said regular programmes have been implemented to prevent smuggling inside the country and in border areas, and that strict measures have been adopted to thwart smuggling-related attempts.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the administration&#8217;s defence forces are also working alongside strengthened border security to counter the activities of what he described as &#8220;destructive elements&#8221; and to prevent insecurity.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban administration has not released further details on how these programmes are being carried out, how successful they have been, or statistics on smuggling-related incidents. Afghanistan borders several countries, and border management is considered one of the country&#8217;s key security and control issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban says it has strengthened border security over five years to stop smuggling of weapons and people in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21799","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=21799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}