As many as 140 kilograms of drugs were seized by police in western Nimroz province, an official said Thursday. The contraband was recovered from a house in Kang district, police chief, Brig. Gen. Mohammad Qasim Jangal Bagh, told…
Marking World Anti-Narcotics Day, participants of a gathering in the capital of northern Balkh province on Saturday raised their concerns about increasing poppy cultivation, drug smuggling and use in the country. Religious scholars and a large number of…
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 roads. After processing, poppy are changed to opium and heroin before being exported abroad. But…
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 policy, he said it offered a great opportunity for countries in the region and the…
Police have recovered more than one ton of narcotics in the Pul-i-Charkhi locality of Kabul City, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said on Wednesday. The contraband was being delivered to the south and western parts of the country,…
Police have foiled an attempt to smuggle 76 kilograms of drugs to Iran in southwestern Nimroz province, officials said on Sunday. The drugs were seized from a car in Kang district, the border police chief for the forth…
It is no surprise that tens of thousands of children are exposed to drug use in their homes. But what is worrying is that the use of a glue used by shoemakers and petrol by children is rising alarmingly in…
The country’s deaddiction centres are not able to keep up with the spiraling drug abuse. With nearly 1.6 million addicts including children and women crisis. The Independent Media Consortium (IMC) Productions investigates.* Millions of dollars are being spent on fighting…
Local officials and residents on Wednesday said drugs were being openly sold in some shops in Maidan Shahar, the capital of central Maidan Wardak province. The business of the banned stuff continue in parts of the city…
Narcotics weighing 245 kilograms were seized in northern Baghlan province, officials said on Wednesday, when 160 kilograms of explosives were defused in central Daikundi. Baghlan police spokesman Javed Basharat told Pajhwok Afghan News police confiscated the drugs destined…
An Afghan citizen has been detained with four kilograms of cocaine in the Indian capital New Delhi, a media report said on Wednesday. Ahmad Jawid, alias Nabi, was arrested on February 10, The Asia Age reported, putting the…
A counternarcotics ministry official on Tuesday claimed at least 865 smugglers had been detained and 76 tonnes of drugs recovered during the last three months. Lt. Gen. Baz Mohammad Ahmadi, deputy interior minister, told reporters his department had…
Five drug smugglers had been killed during this year by the Tajikistan border police, local officials said. The governor’s spokesman, Sunnatullah Taimori, said two smugglers were trying to transfer their contraband from Chah Aab district to the neighbouring…
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Three militants killed and 14 smugglers arrested as a result of operations during the current week in southern Kandahar province, security official said. Six insurgents were also detained and some ammunition and drugs seized in the operations,…
LASHKARGAH (PAN): One policeman has been killed and four others injured when a suicide bomber targeted a police check post in Marjah district of the southern Helmand province, an official said Thursday. Fawad Askari, provincial police spokesperson, told Pajhwok Afghan…
JALALABAD (PAN): Four drug-producing laboratories were destroyed and 11 tonnes of narcotics torched during an operation that saw an Afghan forces’ helicopter crashing in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Tuesday. An operation by Afghan Special Forces was launched…
TALOQAN (PAN): Police in northern Takhar province on Monday detained two smugglers with 171 kilograms of drugs, official said. Provincial police chief, Maj. Gen. Abdul Hanan Agha Gul Qatghani, told Pajhwok Afghan News 166 kilograms of opium and five kilograms…
KABUL, with negative social, economic, security and political effects, the Ministry of Counter-Narcotics (MCN) said on Saturday. In a report released with technical support from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the report underlined the need to…
LASHKARGAH (PAN’s largest opium producer, authorities said. Ministry of Interior official Khalilullah Bakhtiari told reporters in Lashkargah late on Thursday the narcotics had been seized in a series of operations over the past 20 months. He said the drugs including…
KABUL to rid the region of the menace. Iran's interior Abdolreza Rahmani-Fazli issued the call at a meeting with United Nations Development Programme Administrator Helen Clark on Tuesday. While stressing coordination between regional countries and the international community, he said…
ZARANJ (PAN): Police detained three drug smugglers after a brief clash and seized 746 kilograms of narcotics in southwestern Nimroz province, an official claimed on Tuesday. The three were arrested by border police in the Bati area of Chakhansor district…
HERAT CITY (PAN): More than a hundred kilograms of narcotics were set afire in northwestern Badghis province, while 20 people have been detained on different charges in western Herat, officials said on Monday. Badghis Governor Ahmadullah Alizai told Pajhwok Afghan…
ZARANJ (PAN, have been detained with 73 kilograms of opium in southwestern Nimroz province, police said on Monday. Nimroz police chief, Gen. Mohammad Kabir Andarabi, said the detainees included an Iranian and four Afghan women. A Toyota car was also…
LASHKARGAH (PAN): Police raided the house of a woman accused of selling drugs in Lashkargah, the capital of southern Helmand province, arresting 15 people, including two girls, an official said on Tuesday. The girls were later released by police after…
