KABUL’s largest opium producing region, officials said on Monday. The first joint airstrikes on what officials said Taliban’s financing sources were carried out last night in northern parts of Helmand. NATO, Gen. John Nicholson told a press conference in Kabul…
At least five smugglers have been detained in southern Helmand province with more than 700 kilograms of narcotics in their possession, an official said on Wednesday. The Helmand Police Chief, Brig. Gen. Abdul Ghafar Sapai, told Pajhwok Afghan…
Police and local security forces have recovered 332 kilograms of drugs in two separate raids in the Behsud and Nazyan districts of eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Saturday. Twenty-three kilograms of hashish was recovered from a…
Drugs and alcoholic drinks weighing 13 tons were set alight in Rodat district eastern Nangarhar province on Tuesday. Officials said 336 smugglers, including some high profile, have been arrested in connection with the drugs torched. Nangarhar counternarcotics director…
Residents, religious scholars and civil society activists in central Uruzgan province on Thursday said the government had failed in properly combating the menace of drugs. Participants of a counter-narcotics gathering held at the governor’s house here criticized the…
Police have detained 18 individuals over drug smuggling charges in various provinces of the country, officials said on Wednesday. The anti-narcotics police also seized 500 kilograms of drugs and 1,100 liters of alcoholic drinks from the detainees, said…
Intelligence operatives have seized nearly 800 kilograms of opium in Charkh district of central Logar province, an official said on Monday. Governor’s spokesman, Mir Ahmad Silab, told Pajhwok Afghan News National Directorate of Security (NDS) personnel seized the…
Police in western Herat province on Thursday arrested an Iranian national on drug trafficking charge at Islam Qala port on the border between the two countries. Police spokesman Abdul Ahad Walizada told Pajhwok Afghan News counternarcotics police…
Civil society addicted to addicts has increased besides men. Paktika’s Milma Civil Foundation head, Yaqoob Khan, told a gathering in Sharana, the provincial capital, that the population of drug addicts was on the increase in Paktika where drugs…
Dozens of prisoners were freed from notorious Pul-i-Charkhi jail on the eastern outskirts Kabul on Wednesday, with some alleging drugs were sold inside the prison. About 112 prisoners who had served most part of their sentences were released…
More than five tonnes of different types of narcotics and chemicals seized by police in southwestern Nimroz province have been torched, an official said on Sunday. Governor, Mohammad Sami told Pajhwok Afghan News the drugs torched included 42…
The appellate court in southeastern Paktika province on Sunday accused some officials of their involvement in drug smuggling, saying a number of other officials had been prosecuted on the same charge. The appellate court head, Asadullah Waziri, told…
Counternarcotics Minister Salamat Azami on Tuesday, blaming the increase in poppy cultivation on insecurity, said continued international support could help eradicate the illicit plant. Azami told a conference titled ‘Cooperation with Donor Organizations’ that deteriorated security, lawlessness and…
KABUL drug demand kicked off on Wednesday in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), an official said. Besides the host country, representatives from Afghanistan, the US and a number of other countries and international organizations were taking part in the conference,…
KABUL would continue until terrorism and drugs remained. Senator Sher Mohammad Akhunzada from southern Helmand province told today’s session that the conflict in his province could not be controlled with 300 US Marines who took command a day earlier. He…
Security personnel have arrested 11 people over drug smuggling charges at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in capital Kabul, the Criminal Justice Task Forces (CJFT) said on Wednesday. The arrests at the airport were made during the first…
KABUL have been detained on drugs smuggling charges during the past eleven months, the Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) on Tuesday, expressing concern over the use of females by the mafia. A statement from the CJTF to Pajhwok Afghan News…
Police have arrested two persons and recovered more than 60 kilograms of drugs from their possession in southwestern Nimroz province, an official said Saturday. Police chief Brig. Gen. Ghulam Jilani Abubakar told Pajhwok Afghan News counternarcotics police recovered…
Drugs have been providing funding for Taliban insurgency and seizing the substance plays a vital in enhancing security, said the police chief for northern Kunduz province on Tuesday. Brig. Gen. Abdul Hameed Hamidi said police seized 1.5…
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Sunday said two huge heroin-producing and processing laboratories and an arms depot have been destroyed in eastern Nangarhar province. A statement from the MoI said counter-narcotics special police unit detected and destroyed…
As many as 171 people involved in illicit drug trade have been arrested and introduced to the attorney’s office for investigation in eastern Nangarhar province this solar year. During the same period, 21 tonnes of different drugs were…
Local officials on Wednesday torched more than 2000kg of drugs and introduced 77 suspects to judiciary organs in connection with the narcotics torched in northern Samangan province. The torched drugs included 965kg of opium, 306kg of heroin, 356kg…
Police seized 24 kilograms of heroin and foiled their smuggling to neighboring Iran from southwestern Nimroz province. Nimroz police chief Brig. Gen. Ghulam Jilani Abubakr told Pajhwok Afghan News the heroin which had been skillfully concealed in a…
KABUL, an issue that disrupted relations between family members. Salamat Azimi made the remarks a conference ‘Partnership of Civil Society Institutes, Counternarcotics and Elimination of Violence against Women.” A number of government officials and civil society activists attended the seminar…
