{"id":22236,"date":"2026-09-20T15:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T15:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/20\/kunar-police-arrest-nine-over-timber-smuggling\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T15:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T15:30:14","slug":"kunar-police-arrest-nine-over-timber-smuggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/20\/kunar-police-arrest-nine-over-timber-smuggling\/","title":{"rendered":"Kunar police arrest nine over timber smuggling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban-run administration in Kunar says nine people have been arrested in connection with the smuggling of forest timber in Dara Pech district of the province.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials from Kunar police command, members of the forest protection unit detained the group along with a Datsun vehicle during a search operation in different parts of Dara Pech district.<\/p>\n<p>Shamsullah Sarhadi, commander of the forest protection unit, said the men were arrested by security forces while illegally transporting forest timber for the purpose of smuggling.<\/p>\n<p>Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan is among the areas with natural forests, and the cutting and illegal transportation of timber in some parts of the province is considered a recurring issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine people were arrested in Kunar province over suspected forest timber smuggling during a search operation in Dara Pech district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22236","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\/22236","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=22236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}