{"id":15471,"date":"2026-02-11T00:02:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T19:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=15471"},"modified":"2026-02-11T00:02:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T19:32:29","slug":"taliban-governor-of-helmand-at-the-center-of-a-drug-trafficking-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/taliban-governor-of-helmand-at-the-center-of-a-drug-trafficking-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Governor of Helmand at the Center of a Drug Trafficking Network."},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15485\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/avalihelmandn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/avalihelmandn.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/avalihelmandn-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/avalihelmandn-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/avalihelmandn-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/avalihelmandn-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Taliban Governor of Helmand at the Center of a Drug Trafficking Network.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Reliable sources have confirmed to media outlets that a large shipment of narcotics intercepted last week while being smuggled from Chah Ab District of Takhar Province into Tajikistan belonged to Mawlawi Amanuddin Mansoor, the Taliban governor of Helmand Province.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>This revelation once again shows that corruption within the Taliban has gone beyond the local level and that senior officials of the group are directly involved in criminal economies and drug trafficking.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>According to sources, the transfer of the shipment was organized by individuals linked to a local broker known as Pahlawan Basir, a resident of Chah Ab District, operating as part of a network that relied on the influence and immunity of Taliban officials.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>This incident highlights the clear connection between Taliban political power and drug trafficking a link that directly contradicts the group\u2019s official claims of combating narcotics and has effectively turned Afghanistan into a hub of state-protected illegal trade.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Tajik border forces reportedly killed the traffickers as they attempted to illegally cross into Tajikistan, while the Taliban have so far remained silent on the case.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>This meaningful silence, alongside growing allegations against senior Taliban officials, indicates that corruption under Taliban rule has not only gone unchecked but has reached its peak across security, economic, and so-called \u201ccounter-narcotics\u201d domains.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban Governor of Helmand at the Center of a Drug Trafficking Network. Reliable sources have confirmed to media outlets that a large shipment of narcotics intercepted last week while being smuggled from Chah Ab District of Takhar Province into Tajikistan belonged to Mawlawi Amanuddin Mansoor, the Taliban governor of Helmand Province. This revelation once again [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15488,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15471\/revisions\/15488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}