{"id":24990,"date":"2026-10-29T11:56:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T11:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/29\/taliban-rejects-un-report-opium-cultivation-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T11:56:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T11:56:53","slug":"taliban-rejects-un-report-opium-cultivation-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/29\/taliban-rejects-un-report-opium-cultivation-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Rejects UN Report on Opium Cultivation Surge in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban&#8217;s Interior Ministry spokesperson, Abdul Latif Qani, has dismissed the latest report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) regarding the expansion of narcotics cultivation in Afghanistan, describing it as not reflective of the actual situation on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released by the Interior Ministry, it was stated that the Ministry\u2019s Anti-Narcotics Department has eradicated more than 26,000 hectares of narcotics cultivation this year, which, according to them, has reduced the cultivation levels to nearly zero.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry also emphasized that its Anti-Narcotics Department&#8217;s assessments fundamentally differ from those of the UNODC report.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban&#8217;s Interior Ministry added that technical and international reports should be free from political interference and correspond with the realities present on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, the United Nations has announced that narcotics cultivation in Afghanistan has increased fivefold this year, a claim that has been met with skepticism and criticism from the Taliban administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban&#8217;s Interior Ministry denies UN report claiming a fivefold rise in Afghanistan&#8217;s narcotics cultivation, asserting eradication efforts near zero levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24990","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\/24990","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=24990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}