{"id":24812,"date":"2026-10-27T07:32:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T07:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/27\/taliban-pakistan-drug-trafficking-afghanistan-balochistan\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T07:32:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T07:32:22","slug":"taliban-pakistan-drug-trafficking-afghanistan-balochistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/27\/taliban-pakistan-drug-trafficking-afghanistan-balochistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Interior Ministry Spokesman Urges World to Condemn Drug Trafficking from Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muttaqi? No. Abdul Matin Qane, spokesman for the Taliban-run Interior Ministry, has said that the cultivation and processing of narcotics continue in Pakistan&#8217;s Balochistan province and that the drugs are being smuggled to neighbouring countries, including Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, these activities have had a broad negative impact on Afghanistan&#8217;s security and stability and require the immediate attention of the international community.<\/p>\n<p>Qane called on the United Nations and international organisations to condemn the cultivation, production and trafficking of narcotics in Pakistan and to take effective measures to stop it.<\/p>\n<p>Drug trafficking has been one of the region&#8217;s long-standing problems, fuelling insecurity, violence and addiction in Afghanistan, while also continuing to strengthen the illegal economy and corruption in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban officials say narcotics are still being cultivated in Pakistan\u2019s Balochistan province and smuggled into Afghanistan and neighbouring countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24812","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\/24812","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=24812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}