The United Nations World Drug Report 2026 highlights an increase in global drug use and the growing spread of synthetic drugs, while identifying the decline in opium production in Afghanistan as one of the most significant developments in…
Police have arrested 28 people on charges of purchasing and selling drugs in eastern Nangarhar province over the past week.
A new publication by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) finds that drug use in Afghanistan remains dominated by traditional substances, while the use of synthetic drugs and misused pharmaceutical medications is rising. The UNODC…
The smuggling of more than 250 kilograms of drugs to Iran has been prevented in western Herat province, an official said on Monday.
Security forces have arrested five individuals over smuggling drugs and seized more than nine kilograms different types of drugs from their possession in western Ghor province, police said on Wednesday.
The last four months saw security forces seizing nearly 90,000kg of drugs and arresting 84 people in central Uruzgan province, a police official said on Monday. Police spokesman Bilal Uruzgani said counter-narcotics forces seized and set alight 85,142kg…
Counter-narcotics department officials have seized 262 kilos of hashish and arrested four persons with 4,000 zacap pills in Kabul, police said on Wednesday. In a statement, the police headquarters in Kabul said security forces seized 262kg of hashish…
Security forces have destroyed two drugs producing factories in Chaharchino district of central Uruzgan province, an official said on Tuesday. Police spokesman Bilal Uruzgani said anti-narcotics police destroyed the factories during an operation in Gorgin area of the…
Police have arrested three persons and recovered 11,000 drug pills from their possession in Kabul city’s fourth security district, the Ministry of Interior said on Friday. The Ministry of Interior wrote on X that anti-narcotics personnel had seized…
Police have seized around 3,000 tablets-K, 50 kilograms of hashish and one kilogram of methane ice in Gardez, the capital of southeastern Paktia province. Police spokesman Muneeb Zadran told Pajhwok on Friday the drugs were recovered from two…
Security forces have seized 15,000 drug pills and 78 kilograms of narcotics in three provinces and arrested 18 suspects, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said on Thursday. MoI wrote on its X handle that security forces arrested 18…
Security forces have detained nine suspects in connection with various types of narcotics in capital Kabul, police official said on Thursday.
Three people have been arrested with more than 400 kilograms of narcotics in Spinghar and Ghanikhel districts of eastern Nangarhar province, police said on Monday. Mawlavi Faridullah Mohammadi, spokesman for the 201 Khalid Bin Waleed Corps, told Pajhwok…
Security forces torched more than 3,500 kilograms of different types of narcotics in Bakwa district of western Farah province, police said on Saturday. The narcotics had been seized during a special operation by security forces in Wadod…
Security forces have recovered and seized dozens kilograms of narcotics in Mazar-i-Sharif city, the capital of northern Balkh province, an official said on Friday.
Afghanistan Food and Drug Authority (AFDA) says nearly 600 tons of low quality drugs and food were collected and destroyed during the last six months. The authority says still about 30 percent of low-quality food and drugs are…
Security forces have captured 123 kilograms of drugs and arrested eight suspects in connection with the narcotics in Pul-i-khumri city, capital of northern Baghlan province, an official said on Tuesday.
Six people, including four Pakistanis, have been arrested with 90 kilograms of hashish in eastern Nangarhar province. 201 Khalid bin Waleed corps officials said four of the arrested persons belonged to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and two others to…
Four smugglers have been arrested with 40 kilograms crystal meth by security forces in eastern Laghman province, an official said on Saturday. Police spokesman Younis Yousafzai told Pajhwok Afghan News police arrested the drug smugglers on the Kabul-Jalalabad…
Security forces destroyed 13 narcotics producing factories and 31,500 kilograms of ephedra plant in Charchino and Khas Uruzgan districts of central Uruzgan province on Thursday, officials said. Ihsanullah Hamas, governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News security forces seized…
More than 450 special operations have been conducted in central Logar province to prevent smuggling and cultivation of narcotics during the past one year, an official said on Sunday. These operations were carried out in Pul-i-Alam, the provincial…
