Hamdard & Kohi KUNDUZ CITY/MAIMANA (Pajhwok): Three militants, including a commander, were killed in northern Kunduz province, police said on Sunday. The provincial police chief
JALALABAD/ZARANJ (Pajhwok): Police on Saturday detained six people on charges of trafficking more than one ton of narcotics in eastern Nangarhar and southwestern Nimroz provinces,
KABUL (Pajhwok): More and more people, particularly young men, are becoming drug addicts due to abject poverty and increasing unemployment in central Panjsher people, residents
KABUL (Pajhwok): President Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai has said combating the menace of narcotics needed a joint international strategy. A statement from the Presidential Palace said
KABUL needed international assistance in the fight against narcotics — a top priority of the new government. About 360 kilograms of heroin, 29 kilograms of
ZARANJ (Pajhwok): Police seized 70 kilograms of drugs from a car near the Iranian border in southwestern Nimroz province, an official said on Sunday. The
KABUL (Pajhwok): Police have seized 640 kilograms of opium during separate operations in Helmand and Badakhshan provinces, the Ministry of Interior announced on Friday. A
KABUL (Pajhwok): Acting Counter-narcotics Minister Din Mohammad Mubarez on Tuesday acknowledged the government’s strategy was a failure and so far no proper effort had been
ZARANJ (Pajhwok): As many as 140 kilograms of drugs were seized by police in western Nimroz province, an official said Thursday. The contraband was recovered
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): Marking World Anti-Narcotics Day, participants of a gathering in the capital of northern Balkh province on Saturday raised their concerns about increasing poppy
KABUL. During Taliban initial years of rule, drugs cultivation and smuggling reached to its peak while the illicit crop was being planted on areas near
KABUL. Rashidi told reporters in Kabul that bilateral and trilateral cooperation treaties on countering narcotics signed earlier had never been fully implemented. Outlining the new
