FARAH CITY (Pajhwok): Officials in western Farah province on Monday said 2,200 drug addicts taken to rehabilitation centers were treated and reunited with their families in the province. Farah Central Prison chief Mullah Lal Mohammad Zakiri told Pajhwok Afghan News…
KABUL (Pajhwok): Deputy prime minister Abdul Salam Hanafi on Thursday said that around five million Afghans, including a million women and children, were addicted to drugs in the country. A statement from the Presidential Palace posted on its Twitter page…
KHOST CITY (Pajhwok): All routes connecting southeastern Khost province with the Durand Line have been closed against drug traffickers, an official said on Thursday. Khost Security Chief MawlaviMahbob ShahQanit told reporters that all connectivity points with the Durand Line were…
LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): After receiving rehabilitation for the past four months, 218 drug addicts in southern Helmand province have been sent home, officials said on Thursday. The drug addicts who were kept in the central jail of Helmand were sent home…
HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): Drug addicts in northwestern Badghis province have pledged to work for reducing violence in families and society after their rehabilitation. Government figures show around three million Afghans are addicted to different types of drugs, mostly due to…
LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): Health officials say 600 drug addicts received treatment at a 100-bed rehabilitation center in Lashkargah, the capital of southern Helmand province, this year. Head of the hospital, Dr. Mohammad WaliRahmani, made the remarks at a ceremony in which…
KABUL (Pajhwok): A young woman, who became addicted to drugs due to domestic violence and is currently receiving medical treatment, has urged the Islamic Emirate to stop cultivation, production and trafficking of drugs to save the lives of young people…
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Counter-Narcotics Justice Center (CNJC) says at least 35 people, including two women, have been sentenced to various prison terms in connection with 24 cases of drug trafficking last week. Khalild Mowahid, a spokesman for CNJC, told Pajhwok…
KABUL (Pajhwok): Nine drug smugglers and sellers have been arrested during Afghan forces operations in three provinces of the country, Ministry of Interior (MoI) said in a statement. The statement said that the operations were launched by counternarcotics security personnel…
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): The number of drug addicts has been on the increase in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of northern Balkh province, due to easy access to narcotics, local officials say. Dr. Esmatullah Karimi, in charge of drug addicts rehab centers in…
KABUL (Pajhwok): 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…
KABUL (Pajhwok): 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 Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Thursday said police had arrested the counternarcotics director for capital Kabul along with five other officers on drug smuggling charges.
KABUL (Pajhwok): Thirty-seven people have been sentenced from 13 months to 11 years in prison by the appellate court for their involvement in drug and alcohol smuggling during the past one week. A statement from the Counter-Narcotics Justice Center (CNJC)…
CHARIKAR in connection to drug trafficking and three others on involvement in car theft in central Parwan province, officials said Saturday. Police spokesman, Mohammad Saleem Nori told Pajhwok Afghan News two women and a man were arrested in connection of…
KABUL (Pajhwok): Twenty-seven drug smugglers have been sentenced from one to 17 years in jail, a Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) official said on Tuesday. Ahmad Khalid Mowahid, CJTF spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the convicts had been arrested in…
KABUL (Pajhwok): Twenty-nine people have been handed out jail terms from two to 18 years on drugs trafficking charges within a week, the Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) announced on Tuesday. The convicts had been detained by counternarcotics police and…
KABUL over drugs trafficking charge. Khalid Mowahid, CNJC spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the cases of the detained women were currently under process with the CNJC Of the detained women, 10 tried to smuggle drugs in their stomachs and…
KABUL, from different parts of the country during the past one month, the Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) said on Sunday. Khalid Moahid, CJTF spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the detainees were sentenced from one and a half years to…
KABUL (Pajhwok): Neray 80 people, including a Pakistani national, have been detained during the past one week for attempting to smuggle hundreds of kilograms of narcotics in different parts the country. A statement from the Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF)…
SHEBRGHAN (Pajhwok): Police have detained two people in connection of trafficking narcotics in northwestern of Jawzjan province, official said Monday. Col. Abdul Hafiz Khashi deputy Jawzjan police chief told Pajhwok Afghan News that two persons named Baryali and Mohammad Afzal…
