MEHTARLAM/MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): Eight people have been arrested in connection to alleged drug and timber trafficking in eastern Laghman and northern Balkh provinces, officials said on Friday.
Five people were arrested when security forces recovered 74 kilograms of drugs and 100 litres of alcohol on the Kabul-Jalalabad highway in Mashala locality, Mawlavi Noorulhadi Sarem Saeed, the administrative chief of Laghman’s Qarghayio district said.
Separately, two people were arrested in connection to timber trafficking. The detainees’ cases had been referred to judicial organs for investigation.
In Balkh province, a man was arrested with 12 kilograms of hashish . . .
