{"id":3821,"date":"2025-12-21T11:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/21\/taliban-arrest-13-drug-traffickers-balkh-kunduz-farah-faryab-sar-e-pul\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T11:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T11:00:19","slug":"taliban-arrest-13-drug-traffickers-balkh-kunduz-farah-faryab-sar-e-pul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/21\/taliban-arrest-13-drug-traffickers-balkh-kunduz-farah-faryab-sar-e-pul\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirteen Arrested on Drug Trafficking Charges in Multiple Afghan Provinces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The anti-narcotics police under the Taliban administration have announced the arrest of thirteen individuals on charges of drug trafficking in the provinces of Balkh, Kunduz, Farah, Faryab, and Sar-e-Pul. According to the agency, the detainees were referred to judicial authorities after preliminary investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the provided information, during the operation, quantities of hashish, opium, methamphetamine, and narcotic tablets were seized from the suspects. Additionally, one Kalashnikov rifle was also confiscated.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban administration has not provided further details regarding the identities of the detainees, the judicial process, or the transparency of the follow-up on these cases. This comes as monitoring organizations consistently emphasize the necessity for transparency, respect for the rights of the accused, and accountability of security institutions in such cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban anti-narcotics police arrest 13 on drug trafficking charges in Balkh, Kunduz, Farah, Faryab, and Sar-e-Pul provinces, seizing drugs and a weapon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821","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=3821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}