KABUL in Marja district of southern Helmand province. A statement from the NDS received by Pajhwok Afghan News said that Afghan Special Forces launched an operation in Marja district of Helmand. The source said that a narcotics factory belonged to…
KABUL, arrested in connection with the seizures. Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) spokesman Khalid Moahid told a press conference here that the drugs seized included 13,000 tablet-K. He said 82 of the detainees wanted smuggle narcotics via the Hamid Karzai…
Afghan, Pakistani and Iranian officials have stressed the need for greater efforts to check the massive flow of illicit drugs in the region. Counternarcotics officials from the three neighbouring nations came at a two-day interaction, facilitated by the…
Residents of Sehkhana street in capital Kabul say their concerns have increased about drugs sellers and related crimes in the area where a murder also happened two days ago. Murtaza Hazara, a resident of the area that falls…
The Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) on Tuesday sentenced 19 people from one to 13 years in prison over drugs related offenses. A statement from the CJTF received by Pajhwok Afghan News said the convicsts included a woman…
Provincial council members and residents of Gardez, the capital of southeastern Paktia province, say narcotics are easily accessible in some of the city’s shops and hotels. Adil, a resident, told Pajhwok Afghan News that some drug dealers supplied…
Twenty-seven people have been arrested over allegedly attempting to smuggle heroin to India at the international airport in western Herat province, an official said on Tuesday. Mohammad Nasi rNeknam, border police commander at the airport, told at…
Police recovered 88 kilograms of opium from two men now in custody in this capital city of northern Jawzjan province on Saturday, an official said Jawzjan police chief Brig. Gen Faqir Mohammad told Pajhwok Afghan News the detainees…
Eighteen people, including a woman, have been sentenced to jail terms ranging from two to five years on drug smuggling charges during the past one week, an official said on Tuesday. The accused were handed down the sentences…
Police have detained four alleged drug smugglers including a woman separately in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Sunday. Police spokesman Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal said police raided the house of an alleged drugs’ dealer Parwaiz in Najaran…
Police in western Herat province on Tuesday detained an Iranian national for allegedly trying to smuggle 29 kilograms of heroin in a truck to his country. The Iranian had skillfully hidden the stuff in his truck vehicle en…
Police have detanied 28 people, including a woman, over allegedly smuggling narcotics, an official said on Tuesday. Ahmad Khalid Muahid, crime justice task force (CJTF) department’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the suspected drug smugglers had been detained…
KABUL over trying to smuggle drugs to India at the Hamid Karzai international airport in Kabul, the Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) said on Monday. Khalid Muwahid, CJTF spokesman, told in a press conference that the detainees had swallowed heroin-filled…
Police have detained 13 drug smugglers, including a woman, and referred their cases to courts over the past week, the Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) said on Wednesday. Ahmad Khalid Mowahid, CJTGF spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the…
Eighteen people, including two Kabul airport officials, have been arrested over drug smuggling charges in the past one week, the Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) said on Wednesday. A CJTF statement said the alleged smugglers had been arrested…
KABUL commission on Counter-Narcotics on Sunday demanded 'a strong political will on national and international level’ for eradicating the menace of drugs. Mohammad Naeem Lalai Hameedzai, who heads the lower house commission, told a conference “National Dialogue against Drugs” here…
KABUL in connection with drug trafficking, an official said on Wednesday. Ahmad Khalid Muahid, crime justice task force department spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the suspected drug smugglers had been detained in Kabul, Herat, Baghlan and Kandahar while smuggling drugs.…
Authorities seized more than 800 kilograms of narcotics and arrested 336 individuals in connection with the drugs in western Herat province in past 10 months, an official said Saturday. Hameedullah Nasrat Nasratzada, Herat counter-narcotics department head, told…
Police detained five men allegedly smuggling 271kg of heroin to Mamana, the capital of northern Faryab province, in northern Jawzjan province, an official said Wednesday. Jawzjan Police chief Brig. Gen. Faqeer Mohammad Jawzjani said the five accused wanted…
Drugs are openly sold in some areas and even close to the police headquarters in the capital of western Farah province. In Farah City, the provincial capital, Qala-i-Faraidon, Bagh-i-Kafi, and Chahar Bagh are areas where drugs are…
KABUL, and referred their cases to courts, the Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) said on Wednesday. CJTF said in a statement 11 suspected drug smugglers had been detained in different parts of the country. The detainees include a man and…
Border police have detained an Iranian citizen in western Farah province for allegedly smuggling drugs to Iran, an official said on Tuesday. Police spokesman Iqbal Bahir told Pajhwok Afghan News the detainee was smuggling three kilograms of…
Police in southwestern Nimroz province have seized a drug-laded vehicle and detained one individual, an official said on Saturday. Lt. Col. Ahmad Parvez Sistani, counternarcotics director, said police recovered 319 kilograms of drugs from a house in the…
US forces for a second time bombed another four narcotics making factories of Taliban militants in southern Helmand province, the provincial government said on Wednesday, but the rebels said they owned no such facilities. The governor’s house of…
