{"id":35261,"date":"2017-12-06T19:02:37","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T14:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=35261"},"modified":"2017-12-06T19:02:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T14:02:37","slug":"50-percent-of-drugs-are-trafficked-via-pakistan-afghan-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=35261","title":{"rendered":"50 percent of drugs are trafficked via Pakistan: Afghan minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kabul, Dec. 6 (TNS):<\/strong> Afghanistan&#8217;s Interior Minister Wais Ahmad Barmak said on Wednesday that 50 percent of the country&#8217;s drugs are trafficked through Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Iran is next major transit country for narcotics produced in Afghanistan, with 25 percent. A further four percent are trafficked through the country\u2019s airports while the remaining are transported via northern borders.<\/p>\n<p>Barmak said that fight against drugs is among priorities in the four-year strategy of the ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan produces majority of world\u2019s opium. Production jumped 87 percent in the country this year.<\/p>\n<p>Khaleel Bakhtyar, the deputy minister of counter-narcotics, cited lack of capacity as a problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne counter-narcotics police is facing 200 smugglers,\u201d he said during an event to burn seized drugs in Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. and Afghan forces recently launched a campaign targeting facilities of drugs, which is considered also major source Taliban funding.<\/p>\n<p>Barmak said that addressing the problem drugs is not possible in Afghanistan alone and urged other countries to cooperate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kabul, Dec. 6 (TNS): Afghanistan&#8217;s Interior Minister Wais Ahmad Barmak said on Wednesday that 50 percent of the country&#8217;s drugs are trafficked through Pakistan. Iran is next major transit country for narcotics produced in Afghanistan, with 25 percent. A further four percent are trafficked through the country\u2019s airports while the remaining are transported via northern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[264,589],"class_list":["post-35261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-kabul","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35263,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35261\/revisions\/35263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}