Seven drugs processing factories were set alight in the Baghran district of southern Helmand province, an official said on Saturday. Maulvi Muhammad Qasim Riaz, Deputy Director of Information and Culture, told Pajhwok that security personnel destroyed seven ephedra…
Intelligence operatives have recovered and destroyed a drug processing factory in Kajran district of central Daikundi province. In a statement, General Directorate of Intelligence (GDI) said drug factory destroyed during an operation in the Dahan-i-Taj area of the…
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s supreme leader has ordered the torching of drugs seized by the authorities. In a new decree, Maulvi Haibatullah Akhundzada also ordered punishments for drug dealers and producers. Narcotics and the tools used in…
Assuring regional countries of its strong will to combat drugs, the Afghan government on Wednesday asked the world to provide necessary financial and technical assistance in this regard to Afghanistan. Officials of the Ministry of Interior counter narcotics…
Fourteen persons have been arrested and 331 kilograms of narcotics recovered from their possession in two separate operations in the Durbaba district of eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Monday. Abdul Basir Zabuli, Nangarhar police spokesperson, told…
The National Food and Drug Authority says 210 tons of poor quality food items and medicines have been destroyed and asks traders to avoid importing such materials. NFDA in a statement said these items had been quarantined in…
Security forces have seized 100 kilograms of drugs and arrested two suspects in the Kohistanat district of northern Sar-i-Pul province, an official said on Tuesday. Police spokesman Din Mohammad Nazari told Pajhwok Afghan News Counter-Narcotics Department personnel confiscated…
Uzbekistan has welcomed a Taliban ban on the opium trade as a crucial step forward in the campaign against drugs. President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s Special Representative for Afghanistan Ismatulla Irgashev hailed the ban in an interview, according to Eurasianet,…
Security forces in northern Kunduz province arrested two persons and recovered 300 kilograms of opium from their possession, police said. Qari Obaidullah Obaidi, Kunduz police spokesman, said that the suspects wanted to transport 300 kilograms of opium…
Security officials in northern Balkh province on Wednesday said they had discovered and destroyed a tablet K factory in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of the province. Juma Khan, regional control director of the Balkh police's counter-narcotics department, told Pajhwok…
Security forces have arrested a man with 109 kilograms of drugs in Torkham, the busiest crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Ministry of Interior said on Monday. The drugs -- 79 kilograms of hashish, 16 kilograms of Sheesha…
Thirty drug smugglers including a woman have been sentenced from three to seven years in prison by the Counter Narcotics Justice Center (CNJC), the center said on Tuesday. A statement from the CNJC received by Pajhwok Afghan News…
Police have seized more than 240 kilograms of different illicit drugs in southwestern Nimroz province. In a statement, the Nimroz police headquarters said the anti-narcotics department recovered the drugs from a Corolla vehicle in the Sarshala village of…
Counternarcotics police have seized nearly 140 kilograms of various drugs in southwestern Nimroz province, an official said on Tuesday. Parwiz Sistani, anti-narcotics department director, told Pajhwok Afghan News that anti-narcotics police had seized the drugs in three separate…
At least 535 kilograms of narcotics have been seized in northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Saturday. Nek Mohammad Nazari, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the drugs included 445 kilograms of opium, 86 kilograms…
Police have seized 180 kilograms of different narcotics in northwestern Nimroz province, an official said on Wednesday. Ihsanullah Ihsan, the provincial counternarcotics department head, in an interview told Pajhwok Afghan News that the drugs, including hashish and…
The Attorney General Office (AGO) says more than 137 tons of narcotics have been seized and 490 people involved in their smuggling arrested in the country in the first half of the year. A statement from AGO received…
The use of illegal sexual enhancement drugs has increased in southern Kandahar province despite efforts to control it, creating different types of health issues among the youth, an official said on Monday. Internet is playing an important…
Three Afghan citizens have been detained in India in connection with smuggling heroin worth Rs18 million, says a media report. The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested the three alleged smugglers and seized 1.8 kilogram of high-quality heroin, according…
A smuggler has been arrested along with 38 kilograms of narcotics in Zaranj, the capital of southwestern Nimroz province, an official said on Thursday. Police spokesman Mohammad Ibrahim Amini told Pajhwok Afghan News the drugs were seized when…
At least 17 tonnes of drugs have been torched by police in northwestern Nimroz province, an official said on Thursday. Deputy Governor Mohammad Nabi Barahawi commended security forces for their achievement and said the use of narcotics was…
KABUL, an official said on Tuesday. Ahmad Khalid Mowahid, the Counter Narcotics Justice Center (CNJC) spokesman, told media persons that these individuals had been arrested in connection with 258 drug smuggling cases. He said 72 detainees, including six women, wanted…
A man has been detained along with two sons in connection with selling narcotics in the Bagram district of central Parwan province, police said on Thursday. A statement from the police headquarters said the three suspects were arrested…
Two individuals, posing as pilgrims, tried to smuggle drugs to Saudi Arabia but were arrested in Hamid Karzai International Airport on Thursday, an official said. Nasrat Rahimi, spokesman for the Ministry of Interior (MoI), told Pajhwok Afghan News…
