{"id":2018,"date":"2019-09-08T06:08:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T06:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caps.af\/?p=2018"},"modified":"2019-09-08T06:08:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T06:08:16","slug":"taliban-profits-from-drug-trafficking-take-a-major-hit-in-farah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caps.af\/?p=2018","title":{"rendered":"Taliban profits from drug trafficking take a major hit in Farah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">(Salaam Times): HERAT &#8212; Afghan forces earlier this month destroyed a base and drug-storage facility belonging to the Taliban in Pusht Rod District, Farah Province, as part of a campaign to cut off the group&#8217;s income. The operation on August 17 also resulted in the capture of five members of the Taliban including Mullah Marjan, a local commander. The NATO-led Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan provided air support, according to authorities. &#8220;Security and defence forces launched operations on a Taliban base in Farah&#8217;s Saaj village operated by Haji Marjan, one of the Taliban&#8217;s famous drug dealers in Farah Province,&#8221; Mohibullah Mohib, a spokesman for the Farah police, said in an interview. &#8220;This famous drug dealer was captured along with his four comrades.&#8221; Mullah Marjan &#8220;had accumulated more than 400kg of various narcotics in the safe haven, which were burned by the forces who conducted the operation,&#8221; he said. Taliban members processed drugs on Mullah Marjan&#8217;s base and sold them to finance the group&#8217;s terrorist activities, Mohib said. &#8220;The Taliban produce, process, traffic and sell drugs as part of their efforts in Farah Province,&#8221; he added. &#8220;The <a href=\"http:\/\/afghanistan.asia news.com\/en_GB\/articles\/cnmi_st\/features\/2019\/07\/05\/feature-01\">government has decided to first destroy the Taliban&#8217;s income sources<\/a>.&#8221; In air operations that took place on April 27, Afghan and NATO-led air forces annihilated 76 of the Taliban&#8217;s drug-production and processing facilities in Bala Buluk District in Farah Province, burning tonnes of drugs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Salaam Times): HERAT &#8212; Afghan forces earlier this month destroyed a base and drug-storage facility belonging to the Taliban in Pusht Rod District, Farah Province, as part of a campaign to cut off the group&#8217;s income. The operation on August 17 also resulted in the capture of five members of the Taliban including Mullah Marjan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2019,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions\/2019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}