{"id":22128,"date":"2026-09-19T14:15:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T14:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/19\/taliban-seize-narcotics-10000-tablets-four-provinces\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T14:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T14:15:17","slug":"taliban-seize-narcotics-10000-tablets-four-provinces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/19\/taliban-seize-narcotics-10000-tablets-four-provinces\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban says it seized narcotics and more than 10,000 tablets in four provinces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban\u2019s Interior Ministry says that tens of kilograms of narcotics, more than 10,000 intoxicating tablets and 23 tonnes of materials used in the production of narcotics have been discovered and seized in four provinces.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry, the materials were found by the relevant authorities in the provinces of Uruzgan, Kandahar, Kabul and Helmand. The Taliban administration did not say anything about the exact time of the operation, the number of people arrested or further details.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as Taliban officials had previously raised concerns about the entry of raw materials for intoxicating tablets into Afghanistan from neighbouring countries. They had said relevant international institutions should step up efforts to prevent the transfer of these materials to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The Interior Ministry is one of the key security bodies under Taliban rule, and the provinces of Helmand and Kandahar have in recent years been known as important areas linked to the cultivation and trafficking of narcotics in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban authorities say they seized narcotics, more than 10,000 tablets and 23 tonnes of drug-making materials in four Afghan provinces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22128","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\/22128","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=22128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}