Unidentified gunmen have shot dead nine drug addicts and injured a tenth in Kabul, an official said on Sunday. Police spokesman Firdos Faramarz, told Pajhwok Afghan News the incident took place in Koh-i-Qargharea in limits of the 6th…
Drug addicts living under the Pul-i-Sukhta Bridge over Kabul River in the country’s capital hope for peace in their country despite being threatened by gradual death. Many of these drug addicts with shaggy hairs and torn clothes spend…
The number of drug addicts in southwestern Nimroz province surged by 27.5 percent in 2019, compared with the previous year, officials said on Tuesday. Officials and residents complained of multiple problems being created by the increasing population of…
A number of drug addicts in western Farah province claim police beat and force them to work in construction of trenches and subject them to other hard labor. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and…
Health officials on Tuesday said 500 drug addicts received treatment in northern Jawzjan province last year, showing a 20 percent increase compared to the past two years. Dr. Abdul Ghafar Khoshiwal, director of the 500-bed hospital for addicts,…
As many 206 drug addicts have been shifted to capital Kabul for treatment from eastern Nangarhar province, officials said on Monday. As the number of drug addicts surged, some had been sifted to Kabul for treatment, said the…
Public health officials say the population of drug addicts more than doubled from 35,000 to 77,000 during the past four years in central Daikundi province, with females making 30 percent of the addicts. Ishaq Ali Darman, Daikundi public…
At least another 120 drug addicts were collected from various areas of Kabul and taken to Ibni Sina hospital for treatment by government authorities on Tuesday, an official said. The addicts were collected from areas falling in the…
The number of drug addicts has reached around 50,000 and is increasing with each passing day in northern Baghlan province, an official said Tuesday. Shah Mahmood Poya, the provincial counter narcotics director, told Pajhwok Afghan News the number…
Top counternarcotics official in central Bamyan province says almost 14 per cent of the province’s residents including hundreds of children are addicted to drugs. Hussain Agha Nazari, counternarcotics director for Bamyan province, says though the province is…
The former German consulate building in the capital of northern Balkh province has become a drug addiction centre. The consulate in the limits of 5th police district was targeted by a car bomber two years back. The mission…
KABUL camp for treatment, an official said. Mohammad Hanif Danish Yar, spokesman for the ministry, told a press conference here some of the addicts were taken to the Camp Qargha, formerly known as Camp Phoenix, voluntary and others by force…
Drug addicts who live under a bridge in the capital of southern Ghazni province claim they were beaten during treatment in order to quit taking drugs. The population of drug addicts under the bridge over the river…
Several drug addicts have been rehabilitated at the personal expense of two uprising commanders in the Balcheragh district of northwestern Faryab province, an official said on Monday. On the other side, Faryab police collected more than 80 addicts…
Construction work on a 50-bed rehabilitation hospital for drug addicts was completed on Sunday in central Parwan province, home to some 15,000 addicts. Public Health Minister Ferozuddin Feroz, who attended the hospital’s inauguration ceremony here, said besides treatment…
One hundred rehabilitated drug addicts were on Wednesday introduced to a vocational and professional course in central Kabul, an official said. Ibni Sina Drug Rehabilitation Center head, Ahmad Javid Qazi Zadah, told reporters here that nearly 130…
One hundred rehabilitated drug addicts were on Wednesday introduced to a vocational and professional course in central Kabul, an official said. Ibni Sina Drug Rehabilitation Center head, Ahmad Javid Qazi Zadah, told reporters here that nearly 130…
A drive to collect drug addicts from Charikar, the capital of central Parwan province, kicked off on Monday, officials said. The campaign will be extended to districts soon. At the beginning of the campaign, 27 junkies were picked…
