WASHINGTON (PAN and reducing their flow outside as a latest UN report warned opium cultivation has been increasing for a third year in a row in the war-torn country. “The US government is committed to working closely with the…
FAIZABAD (PAN): Two heroin processing laboratories were destroyed and 35 kilograms of drugs and chemicals recovered during an operation by counternarcotics police in northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Monday. The labs were destroyed in Rokhshan and Ghachan areas…
KABUL): Three individuals were convicted on drug-trafficking charges and awarded different jail sentences of by the Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) on Tuesday. Prison sentences of up to 12 years were awarded to the men hailing from Helmand, Balkh and…
KABUL in the fight against drugs, a challenge Kabul cannot deal with on its own. The international community’s commitment to the counterterrorism struggle in Afghanistan had declined, alleged a spokesman for the Ministry of Counternarcotics, Abdul Qayyum Samer. If the…
KABUL's largest opium producer, an official said on Thursday. As many as 3,026 smugglers, including 223 powerful drug lords, were detained in various parts of the country during the period, when more than 20 tonnes of narcotics were trafficked to…
KABUL): Customs officials detained a man with nearly 850 grams of heroin as he tried to board a flight to New Delhi at the Kabul International Airport, on Tuesday, the Ministry of Finance said. The alleged smuggler was arrested…
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Afghan military officials on Tuesday confiscated 65 sacks full of explosives and narcotics during an operation in the Maiwand district of southern Kandahar province. One suspect was detained during the raid that came in Nokak area, the…
KABUL (PAN): US Ambassador Stephen G. McFarland and Minister of Counter-Narcotics Zarar Moqbel Osmani on Tuesday signed an agreement allocating $18.2 million (939 million afghanis) for programs supported by the Good Performers Initiative (GPI) awards. GPI awards were presented to…
HERAT CITY (PAN): Police on Wednesday claimed to have recovered 1200 kilograms of drugs from four Iranian nationals after they were arrested in Farah city, the capital of western Farah province bordering Iran, a day earlier. The men were travelling…
KUNDUZ CITY (PAN): Tajik guards shot dead two suspected Afghan drug smugglers after they crossed the border into the neighbouring country from northern Takhar province, police said on Sunday. Takhar police spokesman Maj. Abdul Wakil Aseer told Pajhwok Afghan News…
JALALABAD (PAN): Young men in their early twenties sneak into a street in this provincial capital, where drug peddlers run their illicit businesses from secure comforts of their homes, residents allege. The street in Majboorabad, a locality southeast of Jalalabad,…
KABUL): The United States embassy on Thursday said drugs have become a major source of funding for Afghan insurgents and it would increase civic awareness to slash narcotics demand in the country. The embassy plans to educate people on the…
KABUL on Thursday expressed concern over the one million drug dependents across the country, which is also becoming a serious security threat. “Afghanistan’s highest numbers of drug addicts with one million addicts in the country,” deputy minister of counternarcotics Mohammad…
ZARANJ /JALALABAD (PAN): Two suspects were detained with 45 kilograms of heroin near the Iranian border in the southwestern province of Nimroz, an official said on Saturday. The drugs were seized on Friday evening from a car traveling from Zaranj…
KABUL): A vocational training centre costing $330,000, funded by the Colombo Plan, was established to provide training for former drug users in the capital Kabul. A Public Health Ministry official Dr. Fawad Osmani said some 500 ex-narcotic dependents would…
KABUL): Thirteen individuals were convicted on drug charges and awarded different jail sentences by the Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) appeal court, an official said on Monday. The convicts, including a soldier of the 203rd Thunder Military Corps, were handed…
KABUL. This counter-narcotic contribution is in addition to Canada’s $227 million development aid to Afghanistan that would be given over three years -- starting in 2015. “Our government wants to ensure Afghanistan is never again a safe haven for terrorists.…
WASHINGTON (PAN, was sentenced to life imprisonment for conspiring to distribute heroin in the United States and used drug proceeds to fund, arm and supply the insurgents. In addition to his prison term, US District Judge Ellen Huvelle in the…
JALALABAD (PAN): Eight tonnes of substandard and expired medicines were set alight in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, on Wednesday, an official said. The medicine worth 7.5 million afghanis ($0.15 million) had been seized from 65 stores with…
ZARANJ (PAN): Two people were detained by counternarcotics police on charges of trafficking 308 kilograms of drugs in southwestern Nimroz province, officials said on Tuesday. The smugglers, held in Chakhansur district on Monday night, wanted to traffic the drugs to…
KABUL): Hundreds of kilograms of drugs were seized by a joint Afghan-international security force during an operation in southern Kandahar province, the alliance said on Tuesday. The narcotics, including 1000 kilograms of hashish and 50 kilograms of marijuana seeds, were…
KABUL): The creation of a special commission to evolve policies and a mechanism for fighting narcotics was announced in Kabul on Tuesday. Officials of the ministries of public health) and the Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG) are members of…
KABUL-led foreign and Afghan troops in Kandahar and Helmand provinces, the alliance said on Sunday. The drug cache was confiscated during a joint patrol in Reg-i-Khan district of southern Helmand province on Saturday, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said…
TIRINKOT (PAN): More than 3,000 acres of land was cleared of poppy crops during a campaign in central Uruzgan province, an official said on Thursday. The ongoing poppy eradication drive was launched last week, police chief, Brig. Gen. Matitullah Khan,…
