{"id":25853,"date":"2026-11-12T06:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T06:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/12\/taliban-claims-drug-smuggling-stopped-health-challenges-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T06:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T06:30:20","slug":"taliban-claims-drug-smuggling-stopped-health-challenges-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/12\/taliban-claims-drug-smuggling-stopped-health-challenges-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Administration Claims Drug Smuggling Halted Since Regaining Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Director General of Administrative Affairs has claimed that drug smuggling into Afghanistan has stopped following the Taliban administration&#8217;s return to power. He made these remarks during the second International Health Exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>These claims come as the health sector in Afghanistan continues to face numerous challenges, with people deprived of adequate medical services due to restrictions, economic difficulties, and infrastructural problems.<\/p>\n<p>Holding such exhibitions under the current conditions is considered a limited achievement and does not conceal the deep-rooted problems within the country&#8217;s health system. There has been widespread criticism of the Taliban administration&#8217;s performance in supplying essential medical equipment and drugs.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban administration asserts that progress has been made in the health sector and that drug smuggling is under control; however, no independent reports are yet available to confirm these claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban officials claim drug smuggling into Afghanistan has stopped since their return, amid ongoing health sector challenges and criticism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25853","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=25853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}