{"id":39333,"date":"2026-04-17T17:03:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/?p=39333"},"modified":"2026-04-17T17:03:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:33:53","slug":"tajikistan-says-kills-two-afghan-drug-traffickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/39333\/","title":{"rendered":"Tajikistan Says Kills Two Afghan Drug Traffickers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tajikistan\u2019s State Committee for National Security said in a statement that three Afghan drug traffickers crossed into the country\u2019s Khatlon region early today, and two of them were killed in a clash with Tajik border guards.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The statement said the individuals illegally entered Tajik territory at around 12:50 a.m. local time. Tajik forces launched an operation, identified their route, and prevented the smuggling of a \u201clarge volume\u201d of narcotics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The committee said the traffickers refused to comply with orders to surrender and resisted with armed force. As a result, two were killed, while the third fled back to Afghanistan under the cover of darkness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tajik border guards recovered the bodies of the two traffickers, two Kalashnikov rifles, two magazines containing 35 rounds of ammunition, a hunting bow, and two sacks containing 25 packages of narcotics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The statement said the seized drugs were hashish, with a total weight of 25 kilograms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The committee said it will continue to \u201cdeliver a lawful and appropriate response to any border violations\u201d to ensure the country\u2019s security, adding that the situation along the border is currently under control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tajik officials had previously said that in 2025, 17 armed clashes occurred along the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border involving \u201cAfghan traffickers,\u201d resulting in the deaths of 10 Afghan nationals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tajikistan\u2019s State Committee for National Security said in a statement that three Afghan drug traffickers crossed into the country\u2019s Khatlon region early today, and two of them were killed in a clash with Tajik border guards. The statement said the individuals illegally entered Tajik territory at around 12:50 a.m. local time. Tajik forces launched an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":39334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[8173,8171,7753,7602,8170,7779,8172,8169,8168,8167,1238,2335,5719,5706],"class_list":["post-39333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","tag-afghanistan-tajikistan-2","tag-ammunition","tag-deaths","tag-drug","tag-kalashnikov-2","tag-khatlon","tag-lawful-and-appropriate-response","tag-narcotics","tag-tajik-border","tag-traffickers","tag-afghanistan","tag-deeyar","tag-deeyar-television","tag-deeyar-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39335,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39333\/revisions\/39335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}