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…
Afghan police have seized averagely two tons of drugs everyday during the past one and a half months, arresting 284 people in connection with drug smuggling across the country, an official said on Tuesday Police seized 61 tons…
Dozens kilograms of drugs, weapons and ammunition have been recovered separately in eastern Nangarhar province, the gubernatorial spokesman said on Tuesday. Col. Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal told Pajhwok Afghan News that police had detected and recovered 80kgs of hashish…
Thousands of kilograms of drugs have been seized and 170 people arrested in connection with the narcotics during the past two years in northeastern Takhar province, police said on Thursday. Police spokesman Maj. Abdul Khalil Aseer told Pajhwok…
Police seized 375 kilograms of opium from smugglers after a brief clash in Andar district of southern Ghazni province on Tuesday, an official said. Ghazni police chief Brig. Gen. Aminullah Amarkhel told a press conference in the provincial…
Twenty-five kilograms of heroin and 98 kilograms of opium have been seized by police in Kishim district of northeastern Badakhshan province. Badakhshan counter-narcotics head Col. Suhrab Rasooli told Pajhwok Afghan News on Saturday the drugs had been placed…
Concerned over the increasing poppy cultivation in the country, the Ministry of Counternarcotics on Tuesday urged religious scholars to aware people about the hazards of narcotics and their prohibition in Islam. A recent survey by UNODC shows poppy…
The level of poppy cultivation will plummet to zero next year in six provinces of the country, the counternarcotics minister said on Sunday. Salamat Azimi named the provinces as Kabul, Kapisa, Herat, Balkh, Baghlan and Jawzjan to be…
The Ministry of Interior on Sunday said 1,263 individuals have been detained in connection with more than 185 tonnes of drugs this year when 22 heroin-making factories destroyed. MoI’s counter-narcotics department deputy head, Lt. Gen. Baz Mohammad Ahmadi…
KABUL. The gathering was held in connection with “Unity Week against Narcotics” that was launched on Sunday. Advisor to the Ministry of Hajj Karamatullah Munib, told the gathering his remarks: “If we are producing narcotics, who are processing them into…
KABUL. Danish was addressing a gathering in connection with ‘National Unity Week’ and International Solidarity Day in Kabul titled “Narcotics are pushing us to destruction, let’s be united against it. The second VP said the drugs had caused more damage…
Six narcotics-processing laboratories have been destroyed and 111 vehicles and more than $2 million recovered from smugglers during operations across the country over the past three months, an official has said.. As many as 740 suspected drug smugglers…
Ministry of Finance’s customs department personnel have detained a man and a woman at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in central capital Kabul over smuggling drugs to Saudi Arabia, the ministry said on Thursday. A statement from…
Police seized 200kg of heroin from a mini-bus and detained four persons in connection with the seizure in southern Zabul province, an official said on Monday. Deputy provincial police chief Ghulam Jilani Farahi told Pajhwok Afghan News the…
Police have arrested at least nine smugglers in Kabul, Farah and Nangarhar provinces with alcoholic drinks and other drugs, an official said on Monday. Ahmad Khalid Mowahid, spokesman for the Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF), told Pajhwok Afghan…
An Afghan citizen has been detained with more than 107 kilograms of drugs in Tajikistan, the Interior Ministry in Dushanbe said on Monday. The Afghan national was arrested during a police operation in Kulobcity on March 24, according…
Senior provincial officials on Tuesday said they were sternly dealing with drug producers, traders and smugglers in southeastern Khost province. These views were expressed by the provincial governor, Hukam Khan Habibi, and police chief Brig. Gen. Faizullah…
The Azra district of central Logar province has become a major hub of hashish crop cultivation and drug smuggling, local officials say. The district’s chief, Hamidullah Hamid, told Pajhwok Afghan News that most residents of the town used…
The Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) on Wednesday linked drug production to terrorism, asking the international community to show the same level of commitment to dealing with the twin challenges. CJTF spokesman Khalid Mowahid told a news conference…
Police on Thursday claimed recovering more than 300 kilograms of drugs from a vehicle in central Uruzgan province. Provincial police chief Brig. Gen. Ghulam Sakhi Roghlewani said the drugs were confiscated on Wednesday night during a search in…
Afghan soldiers on Monday torched 1,719 kilograms of narcotics they had seized from a truck on the Tirinkot-Kandahar highway in central Uruzgan province. The Afghan National Army’s fourth battalion acting commander in Uruzgan, Lt. Gen. Mohammad Qasim Helmandwal…
More than 500 kilograms of drugs have been seized by law-enforcement agencies in Kunduz, Baghlan and Nimroz provinces, officials said on Tuesday. Brig. Gen. Mohammad Qasim Jangalbagh, police chief for Kunduz, told Pajhwok Afghan News 180 kilograms…
A dozen drug traffickers have been arrested by counter narcotic police, the Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) said on Monday. The traffickers were detained in Herat, Baghlan, Samangan, Kunduz and Kabul provinces during the past two weeks. They…
A drug trafficker was detained with 60 kilograms of heroin on the outskirts of Pul-i-Khumari, the capital of northern Baghlan province, an official said on Saturday. The deputy provincial police chief, Lt. Col. Abdul Rashid Bashir, told Pajhwok…
